Cop Busted for Passing Along Terrorist Info to a Friend

A Canadian woman in a custody battle in her home country tried to pull the ultimate trump card in the fight for her children: submitting documents that their father was on a terrorist watch list here in the US. What she didn't think of was that authorities might be curious to know just where she got the terrorist list she presented from. It also might have helped if she had double-checked that her friend who had passed along that information from the National Crime Information Center computers actually had proper access to it in the first place. Instead federal authorities have arrested her friend, Haytham Khalil--an eight-year NYPD vet--for hacking into e-Justice, the state database where he illegally obtained the terrorist list. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police tipped off the NYPD who then traced the computer Khalil had used. Khalil got into to the list by asking a departing officer who had access to it for his password. That officer was not named but has been disciplined, but Khalil was suspended without pay and faces a fine of up to $100,000.

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By Billy Parker in News on November 21, 2008 1:14 PM

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EAUM

HEY!, (handsomelittledevil) I WOULDN'T BE WORRYING ABOUT FISA IF I WERE YOU. NOBODY IS GOING TO BE LISTENING TO YOUR HEAVY BREATHING PHONE CALLS, LIKE THE ONES YOU MAKE EVERY NIGHT TO YOUR FAVORITE SEX LINE: 1 800-UPTHEPIEHOLE, BUT ON THE BRIGHT SIDE, HEAVY BREATHING IS GOOD FOR YOUR THROAT; MAKING GOBBLING MUCH EASIER....

LET ME KNOW WHEN FISA BECOMES A PROBLEM IN YOUR POOR PATHETIC LIFE?

Future Taliban

So if this guy merits a $100K fine and pay suspension what does GW Bush get for starting an illegal war, torturing people, authorizing worldwide kidnappings and wiretapping his citizens at random?

Anyone?

I didn't think so.

yg

Not sure about S.D., but it does bother me seeing Obama taking heat for his middle name!

Damit! My mother always told me: "Don't feed the trolls"!

S.D.

"Sorry S.D. but it has everything to do with your cult leader Obama"

(Sigh)

Ok, I'll feed the Troll a bit.

Riddle me this: How does something that happened under Pres. GW Bush watch have anything to do with Pres. Elect Obama?

Do try not to burst that single brain cell of yours when you "elaborate".

TooTallJeff

Privacy is dead. It's a shame.

handsomedevil

Yeah, Hugo blames the strangest things on Obama. It's almost like he's a 10-year-old who just discovered politics exist, but is a little fuzzy on who stands for what.

BUT, this is actually a good example of why you need to worry about FISA and the general erosion of your rights in the "fight against terror." Sure, it's unlikely that the CIA is going to tap your phone, but it's possible that some low-level schmuck will abuse these tools to serve his own agenda. Look at how NYPD runs around and videotapes whoever they want.