Priorities

From http://www.thinkprogress.org

What I would like to do real quick look at a memo that was sent by Attorney General Gonzales back in June.

When FBI supervisors in Miami met with new interim U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta last month, they wondered what the top enforcement priority for Acosta and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales would be.

Would it be terrorism? Organized crime? Narcotics trafficking? Immigration? Or maybe public corruption?

The agents were stunned to learn that a top prosecutorial priority of Acosta and the Department of Justice was none of the above. Instead, Acosta told them, it’s obscenity. Not pornography involving children, but pornographic material featuring consenting adults.

His own prosecutors have warned Acosta that prioritizing adult porn would reduce resources for prosecuting other crimes, including porn involving children. According to high-level sources who did not want to be identified, Acosta has assigned prosecutors porn cases over their objections. … Acosta [said] that this was Attorney General Gonzales’ mandate.

So terrorism isn't a priority for the Department of Justice??? And we have an imaginery forgotton war on terror (sorry dispite Bush and the right wing echo machine the war in Iraq has nothing to do with the war on terror) I do have a question: Are we any safer now then before 9/11??