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By Patience Wait
GCN Staff
04/06/06
A high-ranking Defense Department IT official has been
arrested and
indicted on child pornography charges.
Charles Lynch, director of the Defense Information Systems
Agency's
Internet Protocol 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 allege 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. Agents found child pornography in computer file
folders, the
IG's statement said.
Lynch, 44, is on leave without pay from DISA. If convicted,
he faces
up to 10 years in prison.
The investigation is being conducted by the Defense Criminal
Investigative Service, the Federal Bureau of Investigation
and the
DISA OIG. Officials with those agencies, as well as the U.S.
Attorney's Office, declined to comment on the ongoing
investigation.
In apparently unrelated cases, a Homeland Security
Department official
was arrested earlier this week for soliciting sex over the
Internet
with a minor. And last week, federal agents seized computer
equipment
from the desk of a NASA official March 29, based on
information
developed during a U.S. Postal Inspection Service undercover
investigation of Internet trafficking in child pornography.
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