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Air Force Suspends Cyber Command Program

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the less-qq-more-pewpew dept.

AFCyber writes "The Air Force on Monday suspended all efforts related to development of a program to become the dominant service in cyberspace, according to knowledgeable sources. Top Air Force officials put a halt to all activities related to the establishment of the Cyber Command, a provisional unit that is currently part of the 8th Air Force at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, sources told Nextgov. An internal Air Force e-mail obtained by Nextgov said, 'Transfers of manpower and resources, including activation and re-assignment of units, shall be halted.' Establishment of the Cyber Command will be delayed until new senior Air Force leaders, including Chief of Staff Norton Schwartz, sworn in today, have time to make a final decision on the scope and mission of the command."

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  1. Re:Complete Waste of Time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I'm really glad that we're going to get a new president who's actually smart for a change. We're really dodging a bullet with the Internet-illiterate WcCain offering a third term of Bush's catastrophic failures to protect anything except his own ass. Heckuva job, brownnose!

    Yeah, a man with a world view from South Chicago is so much better than McCain.

    Obama: Stop!
    Putin: Fuck You.
    Obama: No, I mean really stop!
    Putin: Fuck You.
    Obama: Stop or I'll use force!
    Putin: Fuck you and your force.
    Obama: Please Stop!!!

  2. Re:Complete Waste of Time by Doc+Ruby · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    "World view from South Chicago"?

    I guess it's not just just San Francisco and New York that you Republicans hate - it's any city. Or maybe that's just code for "Black people", like a standard issue racist Republican.

    Funny how South Chicago's "worldview" doesn't stop at asking tough guys nicely, but is known for utterly destroying its enemies. Just as Obama will utterly destroy Old Man WcCain.

    Despite your typically Republican contradictory nonsense, Anonymous Republican Coward, I would indeed take the "South Chicago worldview" over WcCain's, which simply depends on which Republican lobbyist most recently handed him his marching orders. A worldview that hasn't been part of ruining this country, unlike WcCain who's never had a job that didn't have "Uncle Sam" signed at the bottom.

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  3. mod 3Own by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    all along. *bSD