Condi wouldn't listen..Bush wouldn't listen, Rummy wouldn't listen,

[SoCalDem]

Congress wouldn't listen.. THAT'S why Clarke is so pissed.. That's why he decided to leave..That's why he's spilling his guts..

He is our modern Howard Beale.. He sounded all the alarms, and yet, no one listened...and now after the fact, they still cannot see that he was right...

I think they pushed him into the cyber terrorism angle to "shut him up and make him go away"






http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/8/16803.html

US Congress whips up 'cyber menace' again
By: Kevin Poulsen
Posted: 09/02/2001 at 20:08 GMT

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Saxton and Chambliss call for federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies to conduct a new study of cyberterrorists, defined as computer-savvy terrorist groups determined to crack American computer networks and sabotage critical infrastructures like banking and finance, energy production and distribution, transportation, and national defence. If passed, the resolution would not put new laws on the books, but would establish a largely symbolic "sense of Congress" that cyberterrorists are real, and that new laws are needed to punish them.

But belief that terrorists are turning to hacking is not universally held, even among relatively hawkish insiders. Speaking at a security conference last year, then-White House counter-terrorism Czar Richard Clarke said he believed that foreign governments could inflict grave damage on US infrastructures electronically, but that terrorist groups still prefer bombs to modems.

"I don't know what a 'cyberterrorist' is," Clarke said. "We have not found a terrorist group engaged in computer attacks on the United States. We haven't even found one preparing for computer attacks on the United States." The legislation comes amid renewed interest in hi-tech terrorism, sparked by a USA Today report Tuesday that mid-East extremist Osama bin Laden uses e-mail and encryption in planning terrorist attacks.

The preamble of the resolution also supports continued funding for the Clinton administration's cyber security programs, including the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Centre (NIPC), and the Commerce Department's Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office, and it endorses Clinton's 2000 "National Plan for Information Systems Protection."

An identical resolution stalled in committee last year.

© 2001 SecurityFocus.com, all rights reserved.

[whistle]

1. That sounds like a variation on the three monkeys...

...speak no/see no/hear no logic:7 B-) :+

[k in IA]

2. Iraq is why he is so pissed.

He was going to be a team player and do as much as he could within the government until they invaded Iraq and diverted resources from the real war on terrorism.

[billbuckhead]

3. Paul O'Neill say Bush and his cabinent were like a blind man

in a room full of deaf people.

<http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/01/10/oneill.bush/index.html>

[Stephanie]

4. What pissed him off, is that they still wouldn't listen AFTER 9/11

I think that's when Clarke smelled the rat. AFTER 9/11 and they STILL were more interested in hitting Iraq than al Queda. That opened Clarke's eyes for good.

This is a very convincing argument to repubs/independents. I mean really - WTF? 200 people just died in Spain because BushCO was busy pursuing their 1991 get-Saddam strategy instead of defeating al Queda and getting bin Laden.