Bobo's world, continued

Um, about those values...

A Boy Scout big shot has been caught with a stash of kiddie porn - graphic photos of young boys he swapped with other cyber-smut collectors, authorities revealed yesterday.

Douglas Smith, 61, who was national director of programs at Boy Scouts of America headquarters in Texas, is expected to plead guilty in federal court today.

His arrest was a blow to the 95-year-old organization, which had its offices raided three weeks ago by federal agents seeking Smith's computer.

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Smith worked for the boy scouts, which has 3.4 million members nationwide, for 39 years and he had a high-ranking job at headquarters since 1996, officials said.

Just five months ago, he wrote a letter to a legal magazine blasting opponents of the boy scouts' ban on gay scout leaders.

"Some intolerant elements in our society want to force scouting to abandon its values and to become fundamentally different," he wrote.

The boy scouts' ban on gay leaders was upheld on free speech grounds by the Supreme Court in 2000.

Damn those intolerant elements!