The Las Vegas Sun this week ran an interview with Daniel Bogden, the US Attorney who was bombed on December 7 by Alberto Gonzales. In comments relative to the adult industry, this is what Bogden has to say:

“The last straw was the release of e-mails from Brent Ward to higher-ups at Justice criticizing Bogden for failing to prosecute an obscenity case. Ward, a former Utah U.S. attorney who became an anti-porn crusader in the Reagan administration, was given the job as head of Justice’s Obscenity Prosecution Task Force.

Last year Ward and some of his team came to an adult video awards conference in Las Vegas.

“They go in there, and in their super-sleuthing work, they come up with the name of an individual who may be selling obscene videos over the Internet,” Bogden said.

It wasn’t child porn. It wasn’t bestiality. In the world of porn today, it was fairly routine. But Ward’s team wanted to send a message and wanted Bogden to take it on.

He declined, citing the weakness of the case, and staff levels at his office, which had declined under the Bush administration despite Nevada’s growth.

Then the e-mails emerged recently revealing Ward’s harsh words about him.

“It just enraged me,” Bogden said. “You see those e-mails and the things they say about me and the other attorneys, people who are very respected. And they are just demeaning and belittling and unprofessional.”