"I think they figure that pornography is an easy target. It's what Congress asked for, and funded. Nobody wants to come out for porn. They're all sucking up to the religious right. Plus they're control freaks themselves. And this operation misdirects attention away from the results of their own insidiousness and incompetence. To tell you the truth, the guys I had worked with, they all thought it was just a big joke. This was in an FBI field office where there are really important projects - involving national security, high-technology crimes and public corruption - but I was feeling burnt out. I needed something less stressful. So I applied for the Hard-On Hunters, which is how my old buddies refer to it. They still razz the hell out of me. One guy says, "Hey, I thought there was supposed to be a war on terror going on." Then another guy says, "Yeah, and I thought it was supposed to be urgent that we develop better resources for espionage." And the first guy says, "I guess we must have been wrong." - an FBI agent recently recruited for the "war on porn."
Yep, I guess we were all wrong. When the religious right calls, this administration answers. If it means scanting the war on terror, so be it. They'll fire gay Arab linguists in the military and divert precious FBI resources to monitoring porn. Whatever Mr Dobson wants ...