But whenever forensics, computer analysis or some other technical element comes into play, Robinson writes up a little scene in which Banks has a conversation with a fellow officer who specializes in that area.
What's needed most, Paller says, is people with sophisticated technical skills and experience in areas such as system design, software security, digital forensics, computer engineering, and cryptography.
She's also taken his laptop into a forensics computer store, inspected his phone, and scrutinized his phone bill.
A lab with mobile forensic computers and other high-tech crime-analysis gear provides hands-on training for law enforcement officials, prosecutors and lawyers planning to reposition themselves within their fields or change careers entirely.
But the Web also has features that can aid a forensic computer scientist.
A forensic computer analyst also testified that he had recovered matching chat logs on computers belonging to Mr. Lamo and Private Manning covering May 21 to May 25 , 2010
"The image is a horrible forgery," a self-described "forensic computer examiner" calling himself Techdude declared on the right-wing blog Atlas Shrugs.
The second, more recent addition was a forensic computer workstation called the Forensic Recovery of Evidence Device (FRED), which arrived this May (1).
Dozens of people — lawyers, forensic accountants, forensic computer technicians and, sometimes, police officers — gather daily at a site in Thomas More Square here, where News International is based, searching through 300 million e-mails and other documents stretching back a decade.
"If somebody did that, then it was a pretty poor attempt to cover their tracks," said Mike Rands, manager of operations for DataTrail, a division of Ontrack Data that specializes in data recovery and forensic computer examinations.
