Tech Lobbyist Named to DHS Top Security Post

An anonymous reader writes "Greg Garcia, a lobbyist for the high-tech industry, has been appointed to fill the new assistant secretary post for cyber security and telecommunications at the Department of Homeland Security. Garcia, a VP with the Information Technology Association of America, will try to resuscitate DHS's flagging efforts to formulate a response plan should the nation's key digital assets come under concerted attack or crumble due to some catastrophic failure. DHS is a little late in filling this post: Congress created it 14 months ago after getting fed up with the agency's lack of progress on cyber issues."

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Re:crumble? resuscitate?

[tji]

>Last I learned in US Politics 101 is that CONGRESS passed the laws, the President signs them, and the
> Judiciary reviews them. Yes, his opinion will have large sway with the President, but you gotta ram
> crap through Congress first.

You haven't been paying attention the last six years have you? A Republican controlled congress, and a President who has never vetoed anything.. An administration _filled_ with lobbyists appointed to oversee industries they have been lobbying for..

Note that these conflicts of interest were almost unheard of in the Clinton administration, and were much less common in other administrations.

Politics 101 doesn't seem to apply to the Bush Regime. Presidential 'signing statements' which aim to modify congressional legislation? Congress abdicating their power to declare war? Decreasing the separation between church and state? Indefinite detentions, without legal process, evidence, or representation? Preemptive war based on lies? There are examples of each of these in previous administrations, but not all of these and more in from one president.

Re:crumble? resuscitate?

[Marxist Hacker 42]

Given his last name, swab them out for less than $2/hr. Isn't that what illegal immigrants do?