From: The Buffalo News
By Phil Fairbanks | News Staff Reporter
When the United Nations decided to prosecute war crimes in Kosovo, Brian P. Boetig was part of the evidence team that exhumed the bodies of hundreds of murder victims.
A few years later, when 9/11 happened, he was one of the first investigators to search the abandoned car left by the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77, which crashed into the Pentagon.
And the year after that, Boetig found himself knee-deep in another headline-grabbing crime, this one involving the Washington, D.C.-area snipers who murdered 10 people.
“I’ve worked the whole gamut,” said the new special agent in charge of the FBI office in Buffalo.
For Boetig, a fourth-generation law enforcement officer, Buffalo is the next logical step in a career that has taken the former Alabama street cop to some of the most notorious crime scenes around the world. And, most recently, into the anonymous, shadowy world of cybercrime.
A 15-year veteran of the FBI, Boetig has been serving as director of the National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force, a multi-agency center that has the responsibility of investigating cyberthreats.
His work there coincided with the FBI’s ever-increasing emphasis on cyberthreats, especially those targeting national security and the economy.
Boetig knows that in the cyberworld – a world without borders – it has become increasingly difficult to keep the country safe.
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