Tenet Demands Complete Government Internet Control?????

[AnIndependentTexan]

Can this be confirmed and is this actually true? A new person posted this in 2004 Election Results and Discussion. The date was December 2, 2004. I haven't heard anything on this and I am not for sure what to believe about it. Are they really planning to go after the internet?

emcguffie
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x114254#118319

http://www.tbrnews.org/Archives/a1232.htm

Tenet Demands Complete Government Internet Control
by Shaun Waterman
UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
December 2, 2004

Former CIA Director George J. Tenet yesterday called for new security measures to guard against attacks on the United States that use the Internet, which he called "a potential Achilles' heel."

"I know that these actions will be controversial in this age when we still think the Internet is a free and open society with no control or accountability," he told an information-technology security conference in Washington, "but ultimately the Wild West must give way to governance and control."

The former CIA director said telecommunications -- and specifically the Internet -- are a back door through which terrorists and other enemies of the United States could attack the country, even though great strides have been made in securing the physical infrastructure.

The Internet "represents a potential Achilles' heel for our financial stability and physical security if the networks we are creating are not protected," Mr. Tenet said.

He said known adversaries, including "intelligence services, military organizations and non-state actors," are researching information attacks against the United States.

Within the federal government, the Department of Homeland Security has the lead role in protecting the Internet from terrorism. But the department's head of cyber-security recently quit amid reports that he had clashed with his superiors.