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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 16 2013 @ 08:14 AM EST |
The Secret Service is the "Special investigative" arm of the Treasury
Department, just as the FBI is the Special Investigative arm of the justice
Department, and as is NCIS the Special Investigative arm of the Department of
the Navy.
Besides the high profile duties of protecting various high ranking government
officials, including the President, Vice President and their families, their
other duties including investigating and enforcing matters that fall under the
Department of the Treasury, such as bank Fraud, counterfeiting of US currency
and other things involving crimes where money is involved.
Any alleged crime that might entail the use of computers for any monetary
purposes might well fall under the jurisdiction of the Treasury Department, so
the Secret Service might well take over a case mid-stream like this.
I am thinking that possibly the Justice Department finally realized that they
were in the wrong in this matter but did not want to admit it, so they were
allowing the Secret Service (Treasury Department) to take it over so that when a
plea deal was arrived at that was more realistic to the the scope of the
"crime" the Justice Department would not look "weak on
cyber-crime".[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 18 2013 @ 10:31 AM EST |
You have the same question I have.
Why the Secret Service?
Normal, for small time theft the appropriate authority would be state police of
one form or the other. This not being state something more is at play.
Normal for very large and federal level crime including bank robbery which is a
financial crime, the FBI is called. Normal for espionage would be FBI.
So what gives with calling SS? The only time the SS becomes involved is if what
ever occurred is super secret and involves very sensitive national security
issues. Yes they are historically been a part of Treasury but their authority
dates back to the Civil War, they are direct President controlled, and the have
much broader mandate than either the FBI or Federal Marshals engaging in the
most secretive of secret and sensitive of situations.
Could it be that some configured the network incorrectly and that he
accidentally downloaded very high secretive reports unwittingly becoming a
Bradley Manning?[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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