First, it was you that was screaming "cry out about child rape" and now I give you evidence of child rape right there in Texas and the US Attorney Generals office having been notified about it 2 years ago, their decision that rape does not constitute assault and that it would be difficult to prove that the boys did not consent to and enjoy these activities...and you end up responding with jokes about Cheney and Libby.

I guess you were just kidding around about the child rape thing and in reality, as long as the child is not yours, who cares...is that it?

Never mind jokes about your credibility, Pat, I think people reading your responses will soon begin to wonder if you are a human being.

If you put your glasses on and look at those pdf's of the letters I posted right at the top of each letter it says where they are from, the Department of Justice and the Texas US Attorney Generals office. That's pretty clear. Now, because Gonzales is in hot water over firing US Attorneys that were prosecuting corruption cases against Republicans, one might wonder if they had their head screwed on right, why Johnny Sutton was not fired for some rather wacky behavior coming out of his office. Including letting child rapists take a walk without prosecuting them. That is the overall responsibility of his boss Al Gonzales to see that Johnny Sutton is doing the right thing...Al Gonzales failed in his responsibility to do so at the very least.

How much did he know about this child rape case I don't know but I can tell you this and support it with evidence, he should have at the time of this case been keeping a very close eye on Johnny Sutton and Bill Baumann his Texas US Attorneys. They had been charged with threatening a reporter and his family and operating their office based on a political agenda from the Bush White house.

Here is a letter from US Rep. Cynthia McKinney, put your glasses on and notice the date and who the letter was sent to. It would seem that a lot of people knew that something was wrong in the Texas US Attorneys office, what the hell was Al Gonzales doing? Following a political agenda rather than doing his job perhaps? Also, what horrific irony that Al Gonzales stood up in Chicago yesterday to talk about protecting kids from predators and yet his office did nothing to protect these kids that were getting gang raped on a regular basis in Texas in 2005. I guess in 2005 protecting kids was not on the agenda.

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June 29, 2005

The Honorable Michael Chertoff, Secretary U.S. Department of Homeland Security Washington, D.C. 20528

Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales U.S. Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20530-0001

Dear Secretary Chertoff and General Gonzales:

Recent behavior by agents of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security / Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Division - acting in the jurisdiction of U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton - constituted a violation of the U.S. Constitutional right of a free press.

I write you to plead that you put a stop to this kind of outrageous activity in each of your departments and to take measures to prevent such actions from occurring in the future.

On May 24, 2005, Agents Carlos Salazar and Steve White of ICE's Office of Professional Responsibility unit visited the San Antonio, Texas, workplace of journalist Bill Conroy in a very unprofessional attempt to intimidate Mr. Conroy into revealing sources of non-classified information and documents embarrassing to the Department and to the U.S. Attorney's office for the San Antonio, Texas, region. Agent Salazar, with another agent, additionally went to the home of Mr. Conroy and behaved in an intimidating manner toward the journalist's wife and children.

More troubling, still, is that the agents attempted to intimidate his employer at a business newspaper that had nothing to do with Mr. Conroy's reports for the Internet newspaper Narco News.

I attach, for your information, printouts of reports from the San Antonio Current and Narco News about those incidents: "Unwelcome Guests," by Lisa Sorg (San Antonio Current, June 9), and "Customs Cops Visit Journalist Bill Conroy in an Attack on Press Freedom," by Al Giordano (Narco News, May 24). Also included in the attachment are additional news stories on the incidents published by the Federation of American Scientists' Project on Government Secrecy and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, and a June 3 letter from the Federal Hispanic Law Enforcement Officers Association to Secretary Chertoff protesting these activities.

In particular, General Gonzales, I address this letter to you because many eyebrows have been raised here in Congress by the confluence of facts that demonstrate that Mr. Conroy, as a journalist, has reported a series of stories involving the "House of Death" case in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, in which an undercover informant in the process of seeking to make a drug case for U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton's office, allegedly committed numerous homicides while under the protection of that office.

Since it is well known throughout Washington that federal agents do not, as a rule, visit journalists in attempts to discover sources without authorization from the U.S. Attorney with jurisdiction, the behavior of the agents is seen as an attempt by U.S. Attorney Sutton to intimidate a journalist who has reported facts that are embarrassing to him.

According to Mr. Conroy's publisher at the San Antonio Business Journal, agents Salazar and White told him that a document published by Mr. Conroy on Narco News, embarrassing to the Department of Homeland Security, was not classified but that the agents were seeking to find out the identity of the source out of a purely speculative fear that Mr. Conroy's source "might leak classified documents in the future."

This kind of speculative fishing expedition on the part of federal agents would be troubling under most circumstances. When it involves a transparent attempt to pressure an employer to fire his reporter for what the journalist reported for any publication (much more for a distinct publication) the threat to the First Amendment, which I know that both of you gentlemen have sworn to uphold, is clear, and it makes a mockery of the important work that both of your offices are doing in law enforcement.

The Internet publication for which Mr. Conroy reports, The Narco News Bulletin (http://www.narconews.com) is one of the most widely respected international news sources reporting on U.S. policy on the Mexican border and throughout Latin America. In December 2001, the New York Supreme Court ruled that: "Narco News, its website, and the writers who post information, are entitled to all the First Amendment protections accorded a newspaper-magazine or journalist."

Thus, if U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton or the ICE agents were under a misimpression that Internet journalists do not enjoy the same First Amendment protections as commercial newspapers, I hope you will educate them to this new reality under law.

Thank you for your attention to this matter of deep concern.

Sincerely,

Cynthia McKinney U.S. Representative, Fourth District - Georgia

CC: Michael J. Garcia Assistant Secretary U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement 425 I St., NW Washington, D.C., 20536

Johnny Sutton, U.S. Attorney United States Attorney's Office 601 NW Loop 410, Suite 600 San Antonio,Texas 78216

Agents Carlos Salazar and Steve White Office of Professional Responsibility Immigration and Customs Enforcement 45 NE Loop 410, Suite 600 San Antonio, TX 78216

Members of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee