Justice Department trains prosecutors to combat cyber espionage

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Source: washington post

Confronting a growing threat to national security, the Justice Department has begun training hundreds of prosecutors to combat and prosecute cyber espionage and related crimes, according to senior department officials.

The new training is part of a major overhaul following an internal review that pinpointed gaps in the department’s ability to identify and respond to potential terrorist attacks over the Internet and to the rapidly growing crime of cyber espionage, the officials said, describing it for the first time.

In recent weeks, Justice has begun training more than 300 lawyers in Washington and nearly 100 more across the county in the legal and technical skills needed to confront the increase in cyber threats to national security.

Justice officials would not release the cyber security review, but they said its conclusions led to the major realignment.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/justice-department-trains-prosecutors-to-combat-cyber-espionage/2012/07/25/gJQAoP1h9W_singlePage.html

[teddy51]

1. Instead of that, they might want to spend some resources on bringing the Bush

Administration to justice. Oh yeah, and how about we reopen an investigation into 911 while we are at it!

[Cayenne]

2. Watching the watchers

Rodney King like recordings. When the government is anyway exposed by people is a threat.