Today various sources reported that a “Massive” sweep of the internet led to the capture and arrest of over 125 people computer criminals. Their crimes included everything from identity theft to software piracy.
But in retrospect this shouldn’t be such a big deal. If the powers that be were already doing there respective jobs these massive sweeps wouldn’t be needed.
So what gives and why is the US government taking such an “FBI” approach to dealing with all these crimes? Well to start the FBI is primarily responsible for cyber crime at least according to FBI Assistant Director Jana Monroe who was quoted saying just that for an E-Commerce Times article. But wait, according to the US Patriots Act isn’t the Secret Service supposed to be responsible for credit fraud and identity theft ? SEC. 506 of the US Patriots Act clearly defines the Secret Services role. The FBI is according to Patriots act the FBI shall "have primary authority to investigate offenses under subsection (a)(1) for any cases involving espionage, foreign counterintelligence, information protected against unauthorized disclosure for reasons of national defense or foreign relations". So the FBI deals with foriegn electronic crime and the Secret Service deals with "Home land security" computer crime; right? According to how this latest action was carried out this isn't happening at all, the FBI's taking over complete cases and hogging all the information in the procces
So this breaking down of walls between the CIA, NSA, Secret Service, and FBI that president bush spoke so clearly of after 9/11 really isn’t happening. Agencies are still fighting for jurisdiction, recognition, and intelligence information.
Things are just like they were before, except the public is more interested now. The FBI deals with this by putting on a simple show, 125 arrests.
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