You can’t make this stuff up anymore. The FBI is joining the War on Porn, and will divert about ten agents to gather evidence against porn purveyors. Consensual, adult porn, it should be noted.

Applicants for the porn squad should therefore have a stomach for the kind of material that tends to be most offensive to local juries. Community standards — along with a prurient purpose and absence of artistic merit — define criminal obscenity under current Supreme Court doctrine.

“Based on a review of past successful cases in a variety of jurisdictions,” the memo said, the best odds of conviction come with pornography that “includes bestiality, urination, defecation, as well as sadistic and masochistic behavior.”

Somewhere in Missouri, John Ashcroft is smiling.

Hat tip: Jason LaFond.

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