Charles Rust-Tierney, ACLU of Virginia

Charles Rust-Tierney - who served as president of the Virginia chapter of the ACLU from 2002 to 2005 - was arrested by ICE today on charges of possessing child pornography.

ABC News has a report, and Bill O'Reilly gave it a couple minutes. But, only five to seven local media sources are running the Associated Press' account which, to their credit, starts like so:

A youth sports coach in Arlington County who is also a past president of Virginia's American Civil Liberties Union chapter was arrested Friday and charged with receiving and possessing child pornography.

Disclaimer: he might be innocent, he may have or may think he has some exception because he's doing research or something, the images might not actually be of children but of adults portraying children, etc.

Special tinfoil hat disclaimer: the images could have been planted by ICE or by Interpol.

2/24 UPDATE: The WashTimes has a little more, but there's only one or two more local sources - if that - covering the ACLU link.

2/26 UPDATE: The major sources have (almost) completely ignored this issue. At present, the following are the (almost) only MSM sites with stories featuring both his name and the ACLU affiliation (per Google News):

North Country Gazette, NY
NBC 4.com, DC
Associated Content, CO
Washington Times, DC
WJLA, DC
WTOP, DC
WVEC.com, VA
WDBJ7.com, VA
Daily Press, VA

The Washington Post did cover this, but they offered it on Saturday and buried as the first blurb in their Virginia Briefing/Arlington County section. It got two paragraphs, including the news that he's a "former ACLU chapter president".

2/28 UPDATE: He's due in court today. Oddly enough, this story still hasn't taken off for some strange reason or other.

Politics · Fri, 02/23/2007 - 19:23 · · Importance: 1