Posted on 03/13/2009 5:20:16 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
The Obama administration is moving ahead with plans to name a cybersecurity czar, and National Security Agency (NSA) Director Lt. Gen. Keith B. Alexander is the leading candidate for the post, Inside the Ring has learned.
According to U.S. government officials, President Obama plans to promote Gen. Alexander to four-star rank and give him wide-ranging authority to implement the new Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative.
Word of Gen. Alexander's likely appointment comes as the Department of Homeland Security's senior official in charge of cybersecurity, Rod A. Beckstrom, resigned this week to protest what he said was excessive NSA and military influence over cybersecurity policies.
The electronic intelligence-gathering NSA is one of the least public but most effective of the 16 U.S. intelligence agencies. Mostly in secret, NSA has been leading U.S. government efforts to secure computer and other information networks and to block foreign electronic attacks on U.S. systems, which for the Pentagon number tens of thousands of electronic attempts every day. The agency during the past several months has begun receiving tens of millions of dollars in Pentagon funds under the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI), said defense officials familiar with the program.
Dennis C. Blair, the retired admiral who is director of national intelligence, told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday that the Obama administration is reviewing the security initiative "to ensure it is consistent with its own cybersecurity policy."
Mr. Blair said a number of nations, including Russia and China, have technical cyberwarfare capabilities that can disrupt elements of the U.S. information infrastructure as well as gather intelligence. Terrorist and criminal groups also conduct cyberattacks.
"To be sure, significant work remains in order to protect, defend and respond to the cyberthreat...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Oh, the Google guy didn’t get the job already?
The Daily Phone Call of the Left, whose minions seek to destroy anyone perceived as opposition (Rush, Santelli, Rush, now Cramer):
http://rightwingnews.com/mt331/2009/03/spectors_daily_conference_call.php
Never fear, dear leader Obamassiah’s watching over us.
When the government bandies around words like “security” and “czar” it almost always means ... assault on our civil liberties.
Why do we need a Cyber Czar???
Who cares, the stream of nominees will never make it!
this can’t be good
How many czars does it take to run the new russia?
With Zeus at the helm we should be fine.
Another frikkin Czar?
This time from the ministry of information.
All these czars without Senate approval.
Noooo, he’s not like Hitler at all!
“Why do we need a Cyber Czar???”
Why the heck are they using a term from Czarist Russia anyway?
“Why do we need a Cyber Czar???”
0bama won’t give up his Blackberry (cyber shredding).
Super Snoops to control what you say since they cannot control your mind.
Considering this and Obama’s Personal Destruction - Dirty Tricks Division, we may need to be very concerned.
Experience suggests that the next Republican will instead put "solid conservatives" in those roles and add a couple of new czars, just to be on the safe side.
” Up here in space
I'm looking down on you
My lasers trace
Everything you do
You think you've private lives
Think nothing of the kind
There is no true escape
I'm watching all the time
I'm made of metal
My circuits gleam
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean
I'm elected electric spy
I'm protected electric eye
Always in focus
You can't feel my stare
I zoom into you
You don't know I'm there
I take a pride in probing all your secret moves
My tearless retina takes pictures that can prove
I'm made of metal
My circuits gleam
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean
I'm elected electric spy
I'm protected electric eye “
From 1982 The Hellion/Electric Eye
I still have my copy of Wildcat BBS if it get’s to that before we are corralled..
Just shut up and accept it, K?
Oh. And stop slouching...you're being watched.
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