Subscribe911 Op Arrested For Accessing Terrorist Info
From ABC’s Rochester, NY affiliate, WHAM-13:
Woman Arrested for Accessing Websites With Terrorist Information
Reported by: Jane Flasch
(Rochester, N.Y.) - A 911 dispatcher, Nadire Zelenaj, has been arrested for using computers at work to access secure government Web sites containing information about suspected terrorists.
Now, the FBI wants to know what she did with that sensitive information. Agents would not comment other than to say it’s part of a larger investigation.
Zenelaj was hired in 2002 after the September 11 terrorist attacks. Her job enables her to access a secured police data site with criminal information.
However, police allege Zelenaj accessed a terrorist watch list for personal reasons.
A co-worker saw her using the site and became suspicious. Officials tracked her movements between January 2006 and December 2007 and say she visited that site at least 232 times.
Richard Vega of the Office of Public Integrity said that, at present, they can only suspect what she’s been up to.
Zenelaj faces 232 felony counts of computer trespass and one count of official misconduct. She was fired in December.
How weird. Of course the name might give a clue.
And once again these are the kinds of stories that we never hear about except in the local media.
Why is that?
(Thanks to Noyzmaker for the heads up.)
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May 8th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
She got away with this for two years until another suspicious employee happened to look over her shoulder.
What are the supervisors doing?
The fact that they hired someone with her background just after 9/11 raises my eyebrows also. These politically correct idiot beauracracies are going to get us all killed.
I hope they gave her co-worker a raise, promotion or some reward for keeping their eyes open.
May 8th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
So assuming - without vacation, weeks off, whatever - she did this for 104 weeks [January 2006 to December 2007], that’s 2.23 visits a week - or almost every other day! That has to be raising some eyebrows where. [But we all know it isn't...] And it took TWO damn years before someone decided they should put a stop to it and fire her butt?!? Yep, Noyz is right. “These politically correct idiot bureaucracies are going to get us all killed.” Anyone have any idea what the punishment is for “232 felony counts of computer trespass and one count of official misconduct?” Six months probation and 10 hours of community service?!?
May 8th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
So do you think the ACLU has filed suit against her co-worker yet, or do you think it will take until the end of the day?
Obviously her co-worker violated this woman’s civil rights and right to privacy… or so we’ll be told.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:08 am
…that’s 2.23 visits a week - or almost every other day! That has to be raising some eyebrows where.
Not necessarily, BT.
If her duties include actually dispatching police cars in Rochester, then it would be a routine part of her job to access various data-bases whenever her officers radio in for a computer check on someone.
Unfortunately, it’s nothing new for criminal organizations to have someone who can access law enforcement records, working for them on the side. It is probably luck, as much as anything else, that this individual was caught accessing records without good reason.
Of course the name might give a clue.
The name seems to be more eastern European than Arabic -although, given the events in the Balkans, there might still be a Muslim connection (I recall reading somewhere that Al Qaeda was actively recruiting in that area in order to find people who would go unnoticed in a crowd of whites).