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NSA to Become Government Net 'Traffic Cop?'
OriginalArlen writes "The NSA may be appointed 'Internet traffic cop', overseeing data sharing among US government agencies for Homeland Security, according to an A.P. report on SecurityFocus. Apparently the aim is to improve security of all government networks." This would seem to follow in the footsteps of creating the Department of Homeland Security, since the aim is to enable better sharing of data between government institutions.
in FBI you have Intelligence ...
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Insulting the president = +5 Insightful, no matter how ridiculous and unfounded your insult is.
As an atheist socially liberal swing voter in a swing voter state, I really wish the hate and vitriol would cease. I'm hoping that at some point I can again vote for a Democrat but people like you are making that not an option.
only old people make this joke.
And yet, you somehow posted this to Slashdot. Lets hope you aren't on your work network right now ;)
Jeremy
Read the August 6th memo. It talks of hijackings and surveillance of targets in New York.
Read the 50-page report recently released by the 9/11 commission, which details 52 separate instances in which warnings of Al Quaida activity were issued by the FAA between April and September, 2001.
Read the memo from Dick Clarke asking for a chance to hold a meeting on the threat in January, 2001.
Read the testimony of how FBI Agents issued field reports three months before 9/11 to Washington about Middle Eastern men who were learning to fly aircraft in the summer of 2001.
All the information was available ahead of time. No specific information about using planes as bombs, but plenty of information about hijackings. Preventing the hijackings would have made the use of planes as bombs impossible, hence preventing the disaster.