Team Sergeant
03-22-2007, 10:59
O'Reilly mentioned this on the Factor last night, I cannot believe I missed it a month ago. ACLU President caught with child porn. I hope they feed this scumbag to the inmates.
TS
ACLU ex-president charged in child-porn case
By Jerry Seper
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
February 24, 2007
http://www.washtimes.com/metro/20070223-104642-1644r.htm
Federal authorities yesterday charged the former president of the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia, who serves as a leader of youth sports organizations in the state, with receiving and possessing child pornography.
Charles Rust-Tierney, 51, of Arlington, was named in a criminal complaint filed by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Alexandria and was taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and Arlington County police.
His arrest was announced by Arlington police after an initial court appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge Barry R. Poretz. The arrest, according to court documents, came after ICE agents and Arlington police -- armed with federal warrants -- searched Mr. Rust-Tierney's home.
Mr. Rust-Tierney, a former public defender in the District, was identified in court documents as having coached various youth sport teams in and around Arlington County. He is being detained pending a preliminary hearing on Wednesday.
A call to his home went unanswered yesterday.
ICE officials had no comment on the case. One agent said in a sworn affidavit yesterday that Mr. Rust-Tierney has subscribed to various child-pornography Web sites over the past several years.
The affidavit states that Mr. Rust-Tierney also admitted to an agent yesterday that he had downloaded videos and photos, which were found in a search of his home, from child-porn sites.
ICE officials noted that Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales last year created Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative designed to protect children from online exploitation and abuse. Led by the U.S. attorneys' offices nationwide, the program marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute people who exploit children via the Internet, as well as identify and rescue victims.
Speaking for the ACLU, Mr. Rust-Tierney was a leading proponent in the late 1990s for unrestricted access to the Internet, arguing before the Loudoun County Library Board that people would "continue to behave responsibly and appropriately while in the library" and that "maximum, unrestricted access to the valuable resources of the Internet" should be allowed.
TS
ACLU ex-president charged in child-porn case
By Jerry Seper
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
February 24, 2007
http://www.washtimes.com/metro/20070223-104642-1644r.htm
Federal authorities yesterday charged the former president of the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia, who serves as a leader of youth sports organizations in the state, with receiving and possessing child pornography.
Charles Rust-Tierney, 51, of Arlington, was named in a criminal complaint filed by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Alexandria and was taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and Arlington County police.
His arrest was announced by Arlington police after an initial court appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge Barry R. Poretz. The arrest, according to court documents, came after ICE agents and Arlington police -- armed with federal warrants -- searched Mr. Rust-Tierney's home.
Mr. Rust-Tierney, a former public defender in the District, was identified in court documents as having coached various youth sport teams in and around Arlington County. He is being detained pending a preliminary hearing on Wednesday.
A call to his home went unanswered yesterday.
ICE officials had no comment on the case. One agent said in a sworn affidavit yesterday that Mr. Rust-Tierney has subscribed to various child-pornography Web sites over the past several years.
The affidavit states that Mr. Rust-Tierney also admitted to an agent yesterday that he had downloaded videos and photos, which were found in a search of his home, from child-porn sites.
ICE officials noted that Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales last year created Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative designed to protect children from online exploitation and abuse. Led by the U.S. attorneys' offices nationwide, the program marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute people who exploit children via the Internet, as well as identify and rescue victims.
Speaking for the ACLU, Mr. Rust-Tierney was a leading proponent in the late 1990s for unrestricted access to the Internet, arguing before the Loudoun County Library Board that people would "continue to behave responsibly and appropriately while in the library" and that "maximum, unrestricted access to the valuable resources of the Internet" should be allowed.