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DHS Gets Another "F" In Cyber Security
An anonymous reader writes "For the third straight year, the Department of Homeland Security -- which is charged with charting the federal government's cyber security agenda -- earned a grade of "F" for computer security from a key congressional oversight committee, according to a story at Washingtonpost.com. Not only did the overall government-wide computer security grade remain flat (at a barely-passing "D+" but several agencies -- mostly those on the "front lines in the war on terror" -- actually managed to fare worse this year."
...they're too busy ensuring the security of US citizens to worry about minor details like ... the security of US citizens.
Of course this country has slipped backwards from being a "developed country" into merely
a "developing country". That is a basic tenet of the neocon agenda - globalization of the
economy. High tech and skilled labor jobs are shifted to the lowest labor cost country --
whichever can barely "get the job done" and at the lowest price "wins the contract". USA
employers who cannot shift their labor costs overseas are busy importing cheaper labor
under increased numbers of L1-A and H1-B visas. That, or busy jumping on the neocon
bandwagon to legalize the 28 million illegal aliens that are already in this country. Hand-in-
hand with the influx of illegal alien labor is a massive spike in identity theft and fraudulent
identity documents. The GWB administration favors hiring fellow neocons, regardless of
either their real CV or their civil ethics. Helping to forward their neocon agenda by any means
possible outweighs any concept of good governance, or even of the Constitutional balance
of power, let alone the Bill of Rights.
Why, considering the response to 9-11, to the illegal Iraq war, the "Pharmacutical Company
Welfare Act of 2003", or the Gulf Coast-Katrina disaster, would any sentient being ever be
surprised by what the GWB administration is incapable of doing right?
The Department of Homeland Security is a non sequitor at best (oxymoronic?), and little more
than a tool of the emerging National Corporate Socialist state's grab for absolute executive
power, at worst.
..other than the consequences of Bush's actions in the mid east. If the country was under a legitimate threat, then a lot of funding would go into many processes.. Bush is simply artificially exacerbating the threat by stepping on an ant's nest. Why ? they are far from stupid. This keeps them in power, and to the masses justifies their actions. Iraq was terrorist free, now it is creating 100s every day. It is this artificially created threat that is BUSH's masterplan,