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To: bcsco
This is confusing because it’s poorly written.

Agreed. It's very badly written. The following items shed only slightly more light on the story:

FBI Raid, Lockdown at OCTO, One Judiciary Square
FBI agents are searching the One Judiciary Square offices of the D.C. Office of the Chief Technology Officer this morning. The FBI is being tight lipped about what they are searching for, telling Politico only that the search is part of "an ongoing investigation." WTOP's Mark Segraves has been Twittering from the scene, adding that agents have since moved from the 9th floor OCTO offices to the 10th floor of One Judiciary Square, which houses the Office of the Attorney General. Some employees in the building have been sent home, according to Segraves.

The Washington Post is reporting that an arrest has been made: Yusuf Acar, 40, an information systems security officer for the OCTO, was reportedly taken into custody at his D.C. home this morning by federal agents. Acar had worked for Vivek Kundra, D.C.'s former chief technology officer who was recently named President Obama's federal chief information officer.

FBI raids office of D.C. CTO, Obama appointee
Federal agents this morning are searching the Judiciary Square office of Washington, D.C.'s Chief Technology Officer.

The search is part of "an ongoing investigation," said a spokeswoman for the FBI's D.C. Field Office, Lindsay Gotwin, said. She declined to comment further.

The outgoing Chief Technology Officer, Vivek Kundra, was appointed last week Chief Information Officer by the Obama administration.

"We know the FBI is over there but that's all we know," said a staffer in the D.C. CTO's office, Mario Field, who was working from a separate location. Another source familiar with the raid said the FBI had sent all staffers other than senior executives home for the day.

A White House spokesman had no immediate comment.

A spokeswoman for Washington, D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty, Leslie Kershaw, said "Our office has been alerted of FBI's being at CTO office, but we cannot comment until it's over and we get more details."


33 posted on 03/12/2009 9:22:07 AM PDT by Wolfstar (Elections have thousands of consequences. Some minor, some major...and some that can kill you.)
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To: Wolfstar

So, what is the underlying charge?

Were they bribed to award contracts, or bribed to provide false data on something?


37 posted on 03/12/2009 9:24:15 AM PDT by Kansas58
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To: Wolfstar

By the way what nationality is Yusuf Acar???

Yusuf Acar (District of Columbia Government, US)

Yusuf Acar is currently employed as the Information Systems Security Officer (ISSO) at Government of the District of Columbia. He is licensed as a Professional Engineer (PE) and many of industry’s top certifications including Cisco’s CCNA, CCIE (350-020 writing), Cisco DWDM, Cisco ONS15454 and MCSE. Yusuf Acar previously worked as Sr.Optical (SONET) Engineer at Lightwave Communications, GTSI, and NewCall and is currently enrolled in the Master of Information Systems program at Bowie State University.

This is a paper he wrote: http://www.first.org/conference/2006/papers/iheagwara-charles-papers.pdf

These are the slides: http://www.first.org/conference/2006/papers/iheagwara-charles-slides.pdf


60 posted on 03/12/2009 9:47:47 AM PDT by truthandlife ("Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God." (Ps 20:7))
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