I will not stand by an allow thousands of innocent children to be trafficked and abused in the most horrible ways. No on my watch!
President Donald J. Trump
President Trump is making good on that statement and here is how he is doing it.
In May of 2006 ICE had identified over 5,000 individuals subscribed to child pornography sites and coined their investigation Operation Flicker. Their investigation was short lived they were able to make a handful of arrests.
We were told to keep the case under wraps by the Bush Administration claiming that the next Administration would deal with it on their own. I spoke with McCain and he explained to me that ICE would not be able to handle an investigation like this and that if he is elected he would hand it over to others. It’s as if they wanted to bury it. In the end Obama did just that.
Former Operation Flicker Agent
Operation Flicker uncovered more than 250 civilian and military employees of the Defense Department that included individuals with some of the HIGHEST Security Clearance possible. They used credit cards or PayPal to purchase child pornography. The Department of Defense though, specifically the Pentagon only investigated a handful.
Behavior of Department of Defense Employees compromise National Security because the perpetrators that work for our government are at risk for bribery, extortion and threats. It’s an enemy of our country ultimate leverage to have a compromised individual with clearance at their disposal.
They killed the investigation but many of us waiting for the new Administration to come in and revive it in an effort to ensure that we were not compromised in our operations by way of our employees being extorted or coerced. When we did speak up, let’s just say the Pentagon’s Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS) budget was minimized and people were fired.
Former DCIS employee
The names included staffers for the Secretary of Defense, contractors for the ultra-secretive National Security Agency, and a program manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. According to a report by the Huffington Post (since taken down by referenced here) and a dead link to the Department of Defense noted how the DCIS opened investigations into only 20 percent of the individuals identified, and succeeded in prosecuting just a handful.
Most MSM outlets have since scrubbed all information about this investigation almost making it look like it never happened.
According to a surviving report from 2010 on Yahoo News we see that some people were charged. Gary Douglass Grant, a captain in the Army Reserves and a judge advocate general, or military prosecutor. After investigators executing a search warrant found child pornography on his computer, he pleaded guilty last year to state charges of possession of obscene matter of a minor in a sexual act in California. Others included contractors for the NSA with Top Secret clearances; one of them — a former contractor — fled the country after being indicted and is believed to be in Libya.
On January 6, 2011 Anderson Cooper reported on the Pentagon Child Porn Scandal before it was buried forever only to be revived almost a decade later.
Yahoo News had reported that in one case, involving an Army Reserve corporal in the Pittsburgh area, a DCIS agent expressed exasperation after repeatedly trying to get ICE to collaborate with him on the investigation: “Based upon the complete non-responsiveness of ICE … it is recommended that [the] matter be closed.”
Senator Grassley had been constantly on top of this but his requests during the Obama Administration fell on deaf ears because it was the Obama Administration that economically asphyxiated this specific division of ICE in 2009 and they could not continue prosecutions that were started. Curiously the Obama Administration had exponentially increased ICE budgets but deportation had gone down. Then Senator Sessions pointed out that that deportations have declined by 43% in the last three years while the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) budget for the detention and removal of aliens has grown by 25% back in 2016.
If we were not deporting or securing our border where was the money going?
ICE Budget Increases While Deportations Continue to Fall
As per the video above Senator Grassley stated that indeed there were “no answers” to why the 1,700 suspects of purchasing child pornography were never investigated and that unknown numbers are still committing criminal acts.
We had come up with over 5,000 names in 2009 in all levels of governments even members of Congress and Senate. We were told to stand down and pending convictions working with other agencies were simply closed and we couldn’t do a thing about it.
Former ICE employee
Obama why were 1,700 suspects never investigated or identified? Why did Operation Flicker end only months after it had started?
The Trump Administration has made multiple arrests across the nation usually the “low level” child pornography and child trafficking persons that provide new and more solid evidence of nefarious actors specifically those on the “list” of Operation Flicker.
He has revived Operation Flicker and the recent indictment of Bradley Robert Segert on September 13, 2018 is a prime example.
As the announcement states he was being investigated by the Eastern District of Virginia. That is very telling considering this man lived in Evansville, IN. Anyone who is anyone in politics, intelligence, FBI or high level with clearance contractor IF ever they are under investigation it’s the Eastern District of Virginia that does it. How is a loser from Evansville of interest to Eastern District of Virginia?
As you can see the Project was from something called Project Safe Childhood from May of 2006 but in actual fact as it was previously reported by the Boston Globe is was Project Flicker that was started in May of 2006 by ICE. Is this why the Obama administration strangulated their budget and all Democrats are calling to abolish ICE?
To further reinforce that notion on April 5, 2019 a former Pentagon , Department of Defense physical security specialist by the name of Edward Thomas Parsons was sentenced to prison for child pornography. Again in the announcement by the Justice Department we observe the same closing.
Most concerning are the names implicated with Parsons. Japanese news agencies report connections with Scott Pruitt and high level democratic members of the house and senate.
The Daily Mail had published an article a few years ago about NASA employees purchasing Child Pornography from the Ukraine and Belarus. The article indicates that the investigation stemmed from ICE in 2006 -Project Flicker.
EXCLUSIVE: NASA employees caught buying child porn from site which showed three-year-olds being abused – but they escape prosecution and now their names are being kept secret
Edward Thomas Parsons also known as Ed Parsons is worked as a spokesperson for a branch of NASA as by way of the DOD operations back in the 90’s at Air Force Space & Missiles Center in Los Angeles. In addition, former NASA contractor Anthony Joseph Culotta was plead guilty on February 26, 2019 to having child pornography.
Looks like President Trump has reopened the “treasure trove” of persons working in our government that are very bad and immoral people. This should be interesting. Maybe Customs and Border Patrol Commissioner Kevin McAleenan now interim DHS Secretary can shed some light where those ICE funds Obama increased went?
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