White House appointment: Officer of Cyber-security

[Declan McCullagh]

LA Times reported it in today's paper:
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-000080558oct09.story

Clarke is correct. He's a Clinton admin holdover. Rather hawkish:

http://www.politechbot.com/p-02337.html
>The gloom and doom sayers pointed out why the nation was on the verge
>of an "electronic Pearl Harbor." Chief among them was Richard Clarke,
>the National Security Council's "Dr. Strangelove" of cyber-security.

A letter that Tauzin sent Clarke last year:
http://www.politechbot.com/p-01680.html

Google will have more on Clarke. But this isn't that terribly
interesting, IMHO.

-Declan


On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 09:40:50AM -0700, Xeni Jardin wrote:
> White House press spokesman Ari Fleischer just announced pending
> appointment of the "Officer of Cyber-Security" to the Homeland Defense
> Team. I believe the appointee name was Roger Clarke, I may have the
> first name wrong. They're going to brief more on this in about 30
> minutes, and I'm sure more details will be evident by day's end.