Child porn charge against DOD IPv6 director dropped

http://www.defensesystems.com ^ | 4 7 06 | Patience Wait

[freepatriot32]

Two weeks after a Defense Information Systems Agency official was arrested on a charge of child pornography, the U.S. Attorney’s office handling the case dropped the charge. But a spokeswoman in the U.S. Attorney’s Office said the investigation is continuing.

“This is an ongoing investigation, so we don’t have any comments,” the spokeswoman said.

Charles Lynch, director of DISA’s IP version 6 transition program, was arrested March 8 and indicted in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia the next day on one count of possessing child pornography.

According to a statement by the DOD Inspector General’s Office, court documents alleged that Lynch had been operating a peer-to-peer file-sharing program on a computer in his office at DISA. Agents confiscated several computers and more than 1,000 CDs from Lynch’s office.

Lynch, 44, is on leave without pay from DISA.

The investigation is being conducted by the Defense Criminal Investigative Service, the FBI and the DISA OIG. Joseph McMillan, special agent in charge of the DCIS Mid-Atlantic Field Office, would not elaborate on why the charge was dismissed. “It’s our policy neither to deny nor confirm the existence of an ongoing criminal investigation,” McMillan said.

In apparently unrelated cases, a Homeland Security Department official was arrested earlier this week for soliciting sex with a minor. And last week, federal agents seized computer equipment from the desk of a NASA official, based on information developed during a U.S. Postal Inspection Service undercover investigation of Internet trafficking in child pornography.

EDITOR’S NOTE: The original version of this story, posted April 6, reported Lynch’s arrest and indictment, but did not report that the charge had been dismissed. The U.S. Attorney’s Office, when contacted April 6 about the arrest, said only that the investigation is continuing, but not that the charge had been dismissed.

[Cheburashka]

Not happy dancing that the guy is a Democrat, just pointing out the perpetual media bias.
I'm quite aware that there are Republican bad apples.
I'm annoyed by the antique media's attempts to avoid the concept that there are Democrat bad apples.
All bad apples should be tossed in the trash, which is where they belong.
Watch the antique media try to protect McKinney.
Of course she's too well known for them to avoid the fact that she is a Democrat.
But watch. Soon they're going to find information they can distort to trash the poor Capital Policeman, who was only trying to do his job.

[Cheburashka]

I have lurked for a while but never posted because I always saw that new posters were treated rudely. You proved my point.
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The only way to become an "old poster" is to be a new poster and add time.
And you will notice that I responded to your question without rudeness.

[johnandrhonda]

If I had wanted to be rude to you as a lurking liberal and new poster, I would not have said "..and welcome to Free Republic".

[Lancey Howard]

It's not so much that this sick pedophile is a Democrat - -nothing surprising there - - it's that the dying liberal "mainstream" newsrooms make no mention of his party affiliation when you know they would certainly mention it if he was a Republican.

[johnandrhonda]

The MSM (main stream media, if you might be new to that abbreviation)and liberal Democrats made a big deal out of it when they mistakingly thought he was a political appointee Republican. It is the erroneous reporting that is the news, not the unsurprising fact that the guy is in fact a Democrat.

[Recovering Hermit]

Welcome to FreeRepublic, Jeannie.

Give it a chance...there's a whole load of "dump and run" trolls in this forum.

[DB]

First of all, just because there was a peer-to-peer program running on his computer doesn't mean he installed or was aware of it. That's what some hackers do with their programming, setup porn satellite distribution drones. That way the illegal pictures are being distributed by computers that are not directly connected to the source making it very difficult to find the true perpetrator. All the while the owner of the computer has no idea what's going on.

[DB]

#27 is to you too.

[Doohickey]

Nobody performing a legitimate business activity gets infected by a virus.

[RHINO369]

"Nobody performing a legitimate business activity gets infected by a virus."

What if he wanted to download something on his lunch break.

[Doohickey]

Okay, I give up. I guess it's okay for government workers to use their computer systems for personal use. Why, oh, why would I anyone expect someone to do their personal crap at home on their own damn computer?

[RHINO369]

Don't pretend everyone works a full 8 hours a day without any down time. Plus like I said he could do this on his lunch break, hes got a lunch break for a reason, what harm is there is listening to music or surfing the net on lunch?

[Doohickey]

...what harm is there is listening to music or surfing the net on lunch?

Uhhh...a virus? What legitimate, open and above board web site do YOU go to where you can get rootkitted?

[Moonman62]

He also had a 1000 CD's in his office. When did he find time to do any work?

[Old Professer]

How about this, they are both working undercover pretending to be 14 year olds and they busted each other?

[DB]

"Nobody performing a legitimate business activity gets infected by a virus."

That's classic.

People get computer virus' from numerous sources, Email being one of the most common. People conducting business get lots of Email and spam. Computers also get hacked by simply having a network connection but without the latest security patches. You don't have to browse the Web to pickup a virus.

[DB]

I probably have a 1,000 CD's in my office. Data backups, applications, updates to applications, documentation, endless older versions of you name it and my own music CD's. Having a 1,000 CD's is pretty much meaningless in itself.

Now if some of those CD's contain kiddie porn (which is not the result of an innocent computer backup) is a completely different matter.

[the anti-liberal]

I'm confused, perhaps someone can clear this up:

IPv6 is an Internet Protocol, so:

DISA is an acronym for:

Meaning	Category
Data Interchange Standards Association	Computing->Software
Defense Information Systems Agency	Governmental->Military Governmental->US Government

which is it?

(not that it's all that important to the issue...)

[dakine]

Defense Information Systems Agency

[the anti-liberal]

Thanks.

I just noticed that it says that very thing four words into the article.

Not to self - read before posting!