Posted on 03/20/2009 7:14:22 PM PDT by smokingfrog
Forthcoming legislation would wrest cybersecurity responsibilities from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and transfer them to the White House, a proposed move that likely will draw objections from industry groups and some conservatives. CNET News has obtained a summary of a proposal from Senators Jay Rockefeller (D-W.V.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) that would create an Office of the National Cybersecurity Advisor, part of the Executive Office of the President. That office would receive the power to disconnect, if it believes they're at risk of a cyberattack, "critical" computer networks from the Internet. "I regard this as a profoundly and deeply troubling problem to which we are not paying much attention," Rockefeller said a hearing this week, referring to cybersecurity. Giving the White House cybersecurity responsibility was one of the top recommendations of a commission that produced a report last year to advise President Obama on cybersecurity issues. However, the Homeland Security Department, which currently has jurisdiction over cybersecurity, has insisted the reshuffling of duties is not needed. Given the enormity of cybersecurity threats, the responsibility is a natural fit for the White House, said James Lewis, a director and senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, which issued last year's commission report. "The Obama administration has an adviser on energy and climate change, and that's good and important," Lewis said, "but we're still in the mode that cyber is less important." While the bill is still in draft form and thereby subject to change, it would put the White House National Cybersecurity Advisor in charge of coordinating cyber efforts within the intelligence community and within civilian agencies, as well as coordinating the public sector's cooperation with the private sector. >
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Oh boy, here we go.
They freaked out when Bush made the slightest move toward monitoring communications. But when they get power, they go whole hog in the Big Brother direction. And the MSM thinks it’s fine.
No doubt O’s expert will be as qualified as Timmy.
.......and to find Blogs and names of the people who speak out
against dear leader so his Brown shirts can visit them.
Is there no end to these stupid decisions?
So whose security triggers the measures? Is it national security, or White House occupant security? They are far from the same.
We’ve been here before. Hillary, FBI files anyone...?
Cybersecurity, White House = Use information against 0bama's enemies list.
Hillary's 1,000 FBI files are obsolete or she won't sell them?
LOL..your post makes me picture Timmy from South Park!
Crap like this is spooky! I sometimes feel like I am in a bad remake of, “Night Of The Living Dead”.
No.
We need a Drudge warning siren.
Two great patriots that want to destroy the US.
So, they’re taking it away from Tweedledee and giving it to Tweedledum?
And, of course, the White House National Cybersecurity Advisor would not need to receive the Advice and Consent of the United States Senate.
That’s the point of all these new WH positions.
Patriots....Where are they? We need a few in the house, and Senate. Anyone, someone, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE stand up for our America before we have lost it for good. My tin-foil hat is stuck on my head these days, but I am really concerned.
Exactly.
They want to control every frickin’ thing.
Where are the sane people?
I can’t believe there are so many mentally challenged idiots
in America.
Where are the sane people who once had backbone
but are now letting some little pimp pushing us into a hellhole.
There is another thread discussing how Australia may ban even Google.
The fine there for having a “forbidden link” is $11,000 per day.
The census, the internet, what next?
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