oh, now I get it. . .

Many were confused by the priorities of the Justice Department when it diverted scarce staff and resources to go after internet porn and on-line sex crime. Couldn’t those resources, some thought, be put to better use protecting homeland security?

Well, it seems that spending time and money on internet porn is protecting homeland security—the Department of Homeland Security:

(CBS/AP) Authorities say a deputy press secretary for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has been arrested on charges of using the Internet to seduce a person he thought was a teenage girl.

Brian J. Doyle, 55, was arrested at his residence in Maryland on charges of use of a computer to seduce a child and transmission of harmful material to a minor. The charges were issued out of Polk County, Fla.