Posted on 02/10/2009 2:00:08 PM PST by Cindy
Note: The following text is a quote:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/AdvisorsToConductImmediateCyberSecurityReview/
Monday, February 9th, 2009 at 12:00 am
President Obama Directs the National Security and Homeland Security Advisors to Conduct Immediate Cyber Security Review
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
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For Immediate Release February 9, 2009
President Obama Directs the National Security and Homeland Security Advisors to Conduct Immediate Cyber Security Review
Melissa Hathaway Selected to Lead the Review
President Obama has directed the National Security and Homeland Security Advisors to conduct an immediate review of the plan, programs, and activities underway throughout the government dedicated to cyber security.
This 60-day interagency review will develop a strategic framework to ensure that U.S. Government cyber security initiatives are appropriately integrated, resourced and coordinated with Congress and the private sector.
"The national security and economic health of the United States depend on the security, stability, and integrity of our Nation’s cyberspace, both in the public and private sectors. The President is confident that we can protect our nation’s critical cyber infrastructure while at the same time adhering to the rule of law and safeguarding privacy rights and civil liberties," said Assistant to the President for Counterterrorism and Homeland Security John Brennan.
Melissa Hathaway, who has served as Cyber coordination Executive to the Director of National Intelligence, will lead the review and will serve as Acting Senior Director for Cyberspace for the National Security and Homeland Security Councils during the review period.
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He could start by turning in his Blackberry...
National security....yeah....who can argue with that?
They’re probably working on a plan to eliminate online dissent and criticism (of his policies).
FR is probably already on his radar.
Exactly what I think. He’s doing so many things so fast (the porkulus bill, which expands government and gives support to those who will help consolidate rat, and therefore his, control), moving census oversight (which will do the same), releasing terrorists, this...he’s moving so fast the right can’t even react.
Hard to tell from this if he wants to improve cybersecurity or eliminate it. Probably the latter, I suspect. Except for maybe a little spying on our citizens, such as clinton did.
I remember there was a list of key words you couldn’t use on the net in the clinton years without the FBI picking them up. Words like Whitewater, travelgate, boys on the railroad tracks, Arkancide, Chinagate, Ron Brown, Mena Airport, Fort Marcy Park, tainted blood, and the like.
Probably Obama will do something similar, instead of worrying about monitoring potential terrorists.
I'm reading between those lines. They didn't need saying unless the Government is preparing to break the rule of law, ignore privacy rights and violate our civil liberties
So what.... did they find that the encryption tracings on GOP websites wasn’t robust enough or something?
“The irony never stops...”
No, it sure doesn’t.
There’s always key words that are of some interest to some agency.
Who wrote this piece of crap?
“He could start by turning in his Blackberry...”
He did. The new device is the Sectera Edge. It is a modified Palm Treo 750 that toggles between the regular internet and the secret squirrel net.
Of course, we can only hope the “cyber review” doesn’t include dissenting opinions!
ruefully
Very suspicious everything this man is doing on so many fronts at once. At the very least, he is harming our ability to protect ourselves in real time by asking all of these Departments all over government to stop what they are doing so they can ‘bring him a report’!
The man is clueless micro manager at best. I suspect like you that it is much worse...he is an enemy in the gates.
OH, sure. But during the clinton years the key words tended to refer to his personal misdeeds as well as national security.
At the touch of a single key. And it's got a secret compartment for your ZigZag papers...
“At the touch of a single key. And it’s got a secret compartment for your ZigZag papers...”
Precisely!
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