Top Cop Takes On Internet Obscenity and Computer Security
Amid swirling rumors that he was short-listed as a nominee for the US Supreme court, Gonzales carefully sketched out his vision for law enforcement.
Computer Security Key to Law Enforcement
''It will not be easy,'' Gonzales said at the International Association of Chiefs of Police's 112th annual conference, where FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III also spoke about crime-fighting partnerships in the computer Internet age.Gonzales drove home that theme again during an interview with the Miami Herald in which he stressed that law enforcement officers must outsmart computer-savvy criminals.
Computer Security and Internet Obscenity
Part of the government's new computer internet security strategy is to take on obscenity in addition to privacy invasion, hacker threats, and copyright infringement. Some anonymous observers questioned this new focus on technology.''I guess this means we've won the war on terror,'' one FBI agent said recently, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Obscenity Enforcement a Political Tradition
Regarding Internet obscenity, Gonzales said he was only responding to the Republican dominated Congress that has pushed for spending on anti-obscenity prosecutions. He compared the push to the 1980s when President Reagan's attorney general was Edwin Meese III.''They've made the decision that dollars should be spent to fight obscenity,'' Gonzales said. "When they appropriate money in order for the department to fight crime, we have an obligation to do that. And that's what we're doing here. People get the idea that somehow the department with all of its talent can't do more than one thing at a time.
''In fact, we can fight the war on terror,'' he said. "And at the same time, we can go after corruption, we can go after corporate fraud, we can go after drugs, we can go after violent gun crimes and we can go after obscenity.''
