32:02 I just don't know where to start. Okay. I mean I could give it a little whirl if you want. Go ahead, what is it that's in your craw? Well the big story that people email to me with glee, I have to say, is that I have a whole section of the pedo bear who strikes again. Pentagon workers tied to child porn. And I think I mentioned this to you, John, but you probably went like, oh brother. And did you read any of this? I said, oh brother, and I said, no, I'm not going to read it. And I let you, you can handle it. I think Federal investigators have identified several, several dozen. Okay. So several would be more than two. That would be a couple dozen. So several dozen, I'm going to say, is that four dozen?
32:54 I would say three. This is from boston.com. So I dislike it severely when the report starts off with a nefarious number. Several dozen Pentagon officials and contractors. It's not a nefarious number, it's a dubious number. Thank you. So let's say about 30 to 300 in my book. Pentagon officials and contractors with high-level security clearances who allegedly purchased and downloaded child pornography, including an undisclosed number, who used their government computers to obtain the illegal material. The investigations have included employees of the National Security Agency,
33:32 The National Reconnaissance Office, never even heard of that one. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, DARPA, which deal with some of the most sensitive work in intelligence and defense, among other organizations within the Defense Department. The number of offenders is a small percentage of the thousands. I love how this like but it's only a small percentage of people working for sensitive pentagon related agencies but the fact that offenders included people with access to government secrets puts national security agencies at risk of blackmail bribery threats especially and this is true of course especially since these individuals typically have access to military installations now
34:10 And this is a report by the Defense Criminal Investigative Service from late 2009. The NSA, by the way, is actually involved in the investigation of these child pornography fiends. What I like about this report from Boston.com, and this is the big story, and they spent money on this, is the reporter, and we might as well just play this for him right now. I hope this guy makes it out. You know what happened to the Bloomberg guy who kept moaning and bitching about the two trillion dollars the Fed lent to banks overseas and wouldn't tell anybody and still hasn't? He died. But this guy actually goes out, puts out a little video and talks about his story which I thought was very brave and very necessary. Let's listen to him for a moment. I'm Brian Bender here in the Boston Globe's Washington Bureau and
35:02 I'm looking into some investigations conducted by the Defense Department in recent years into government officials, including many with high security clearances, who were accessing child pornography. These individuals came to the attention of DOD primarily because the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency launched something called Operation Flicker back in 2006, which was looking into some of these child pornography sites, particularly overseas, and found that a number of government officials here in the U.S., including at some very secret Defense Department agencies like the National Security Agency, were apparently buying some of these images off the Internet, and in some cases even using their government computers to do so. According to the investigation reports that we have,
35:52 At least several dozen government officials were investigated. Some of them were prosecuted. Other cases are still pending. And in some cases, the cases were dropped simply because the government didn't think that they would be able to bring a case. Officials are particularly alarmed by the fact that these are government officials with very high security clearances who could be compromised. They could be blackmailed. bribed so therefore these cases were considered top priority and Brian now learning about them because these What'd you say? What do you say could be bribed? What's bribe? What do you mean? It could be bribed? I think it just means blackmailed or that I mean, this is the whole problem. This is also said several dozen once again
36:40 Yeah, well, so I find this to be very dubious. Well, and I have to agree with you. I think that someone or someones Went a little bit too far with the blackmailing because this is what happens consistently in the injustice system systems systems around the world is that someone you know is compromised because someone else has the dirt on them and and then it escalates and people either wind up dead or the lower guys who of course are in the cabal and they say, hey well you know it doesn't really matter if someone blows the whistle on me but if I blow the whistle on you buddy well then you're completely dead and then you'll be ruined.
37:23 And so they start to out them and I think that there's a clearly a nest of this going on. Yeah, I'm not buying any of it. Nest bullcrap. How are you telling me somebody in the NSA is that stupid and naive to use a government computer to buy child porn? Where are they buying child porn? What constitutes child porn? You're not listening to what I'm saying. The real people who are really involved in the nasty business are outing these lower level people. Just making shit up. Just to create a diversion, oh we've cleaned it all up because something was getting too hot under their feet. And this guy, Brian Bender, he's certainly being used to propagate this message. Because it's just too fishy.
38:13 Well, that's my point. And of course the giveaway is this term several dozen. Yeah, exactly. And why we, you know, he says it in the, in the writing. He says it when he speaks, it's almost for the obvious. That means to me, it's the script. There's this vague, we don't know who they are. That way we can't go, you can't demand to see how many there were. Well, I want to, I demand, you know, say you're an investigator, I would demand to see how many people were there, I don't know. Well also, could we just have one person convicted? Could we have one name? I mean, when some douchebag is found with, you know, like pornographic images on his computer, you know, it's headline news. It's, oh, we got one!
38:53 We got one! You know when some kids are sexting each other, which is just another case in like Oklahoma or something, you know they have to register as sex offenders. But when this happens in our government, true or not, there's never anyone hung out to dry. There's no names in this. There's no one who was, well some were prosecuted but you know, just kind of swept it under the carpet. You're right, it's a complete distraction from something much bigger going on. And Google actually knows Thought this was very funny Do you ever look at fail blog and you know I do but it's right, you know Maybe once every few months so fail blog org had a couple days ago They had a a Google win sometimes they have wins instead of just fails apparently for a while And I don't know if this was just in Italy or if it was worldwide if you typed in Vatican into
