Hugo is muy jealous.
Posted on 08/30/2009 2:17:09 PM PDT by Scanian
Democrat Senator Jay Rockefeller and liberal Republican Olympia Snowe are still working on that comprehensive cyber security bill that would give the president control over private portions of the Internet. Rockefeller and Snowe first announced their idea last spring.
CNET has obtained a copy of the new draft legislation S. 773. Part of the bill reads:
(B) may, if the President finds it necessary for the national defense and security, and in co- ordination with relevant industry sectors, direct the national response to the cyber threat and the timely restoration of the affected critical in- frastructure information system or network; (3) shall, in coordination with various critical infrastructure industry sectors, develop detailed cyber emergency response and restoration plans for each critical infrastructure industry sector; (4) shall, through the appropriate department or agency, review critical functions that would be needed after a cybersecurity attack and develop a strategy for the acquisition, storage, and periodic re- placement of equipment to support those functions; (5) shall direct the periodic mapping of Federal Government and United States critical infrastruc- ture information systems or networks, and shall de- velop metrics to measure the effectiveness of the mapping process; (B) may, if the President finds it necessary for the national defense and security, and in co- ordination with relevant industry sectors, direct the national response to the cyber threat and the timely restoration of the affected critical in- frastructure information system or network; (3) shall, in coordination with various critical infrastructure industry sectors, develop detailed cyber emergency response and restoration plans for each critical infrastructure industry sector; (4) shall, through the appropriate department or agency, review critical functions that would be needed after a cybersecurity attack and develop a strategy for the acquisition, storage, and periodic replacement of equipment to support those functions; (5) shall direct the periodic mapping of Federal Government and United States critical infrastructure information systems or networks, and shall develop metrics to measure the effectiveness of the mapping process;
In short, the federal government would be given the power to have direct access to all of our records (in the guise of protecting them from being destroyed.)
Here is my advice: buy an extra hard drive and kill this god-awful legislation. Now.
Crickets down at the aCLU?
Hugo is muy jealous.
Oppressive socialism. Is this not what the founding fathers warned us about in the Constitution???
EXPELL SNOWE from the party! She is cutting another backroom deal...wonder what she is being promised this time?
“If we let BOzo keep this up soon we will have no country.”
THAT’S THE PLAN!
From the people that were SHOCKED AND APPALLED that a tiny % of international phone calls to terrorist countries might be listened to.
Un-freaking-believable
(but too believable)
bookmark.
Yellow Snowe again ... NO!
Could bad polling numbers institute an emergency?
LOL...that is priceless!!
~~~~I bet she can't write her name either :)
Let’s look at the passage given in the post:
“direct the national response to the cyber threat” - does that mean he can do anything he wants?
“develop detailed cyber...plans” - nothing here about implementing a plan.
“review critical functions” - what functions. Anyway, he’s just reviewing them.
“direct the periodic mapping” - what is “mapping” It’s essential to know this in order to understand the bill.
“direct the national response to the cyber-threat” - does this also mean he can do anything he wants?
“review critical functions” - this is just a review but maybe he must see our private files in order to do the review
The bill needs to say what privacy rights citizens will be left with. It needs to be examined as to its constitutionality.
Seems like the measures proposed in the bill would fall within the purview of the CIA or NSA. Why is it being elevated to the presidential level.
Sure, it gives him the right to do anything he wants. Why else would the libtards want to do this?
The libs mainly want such power so that they never have to put up with a pubbie administration ever again.
Every move the Obamanoids make has to do with the acquisition and preservation of their own political power.
It’s really no more complicated than that.
I’ll tell you, I trust the CIA, NSA and the ONI a LOT more than OBAMA and his THUGS!
ONI http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Naval_Intelligence
Another reason Melissa Hathaway, White House Cybersecurity Czarina, quit on Aug. 3.
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