This new stance on online gaming from him is taken from his website as the op says. I attempted to check out earlier versions to see when this change was made, but the most recent archived copy of the website is from 10/26/2010 and this was his statement on online gambling then:
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The Federal Wire Act of 1961 made it a crime to place bets over electronic communications media, primarily communications by telephone. But, over time, the reach of the proscription extended to communications via emerging technologies, including the Internet. Internet gambling is, therefore, illegal under federal law, and runs afoul of state laws prohibiting gambling as well.
The reason that Internet gambling took hold, despite the bans, is that law enforcement capabilities were unable to keep up with the technological innovations. That's why, in 2006, Congress approved the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) to give the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve, in consultation with the Justice Department, new authority to enforce the ban by blocking the flow of money to and from illegal gambling websites which operate primarily offshore. Forty-nine state attorneys general were among those who had petitioned Congress for these new tools to enforce the Internet gambling ban.
I support UIGEA to give law enforcement the tools it needs to deal with technologies that could not have been foreseen when the ban was adopted long ago. No one is entitled to circumvent a law simply because it is hard to enforce.
edit: The page is the exact same, its in his crime section, and the layout is the same, its just sometime after 10/26/2010 he changed his statement about online gaming It would be very interesting to know if that happened pre or post 4/15