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Are_we_sure ago

You're off on a few things.

First, Grassley did not expose this. In 2006, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children got several tips of American's visiting a child porn website run out of Belarus and Ukraine. They tipped off Customs and Immigration since it was a foreign website. Customs looked into it via Operation Flicker and they found 5,000 Americans might customers of the website. Some of these used DOD email addresses. It was not 5,000 DOD workers as some sites claimed. So the DOJ told the DOD to look into this. DOD looked into 3500 of the 5000 cases and found "several dozen" possible DOD employees or contractors who might child porn.

2009 DOD IG report https://media.defense.gov/2010/Jul/23/2001774424/-1/-1/1/OperationFlickerReportsJuly2010pdf.pdf

In 2010, the MSM aka The Boston Globe got access to this report and and published a story saying DOD employees had download child porn. Grassley was responding to these new reports when he went on CNN in 2011. He was doing a follow up investigation which is a good and worthy thing, but he did't expose this. The Boston Globe did. The Globe also later published a story about the fact that 1,700 names were still to be checked for DOD ties.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/checkpoint-washington/2010/07/boston_globe_pentagon_workers.html

https://www.voanews.com/a/pentagon-workers-linked-to-child-pornography-99150694/174207.html

Secondly, this was not a pedophile ring. This was a bunch of people who accessed a commercial website overseas. They were not acting in concert.

Thirdly, you are wrong on the "State Department pedophile ring." NBC and other news sites did a story on a bunch of allegations and later on the Inspector General looked into this investigations. Clinton was not involved at all. The most explosive allegation against an ambassador "was not substatntiated" and he later got an apology from the State Department

OIG found that, based on the limited evidence collectedby DS, the suspected misconduct by the Ambassador was not substantiated.

You can read the IG report here. https://www.stateoig.gov/system/files/esp-15-01.pdf

None of this proves pizzagate whatsoever.