Former FBI chief: NSA can't run cybersecurity alone

WASHINGTON--Echoing recent comments from government and industry representatives, a former FBI chief on Thursday said the intelligence community would be the wrong place to put complete responsibility for cybersecurity.

Louis Freeh in his FBI days.

(Credit: FBI)

Louis Freeh, who served as FBI director from 1993 to 2001, told audiences at the FOSE 2009 conference here that when the director of the Homeland Security Department's National Cyber Security Center resigned last week, he tapped into a strong historical resistance in the United States to centralized power, particularly in intelligence and military units. In his resignation letter, Rod Beckström said he opposes what he perceives as attempts by the National Security Agency to control DHS cyber efforts.

"The comments (Beckström) made really went to the heart of this centuries-old nationwide dilemma," Freeh said. "It is still the same debate we were having 200 years ago--is the military going to be responsible for this, or do we need to set up an independent civilian entity?"

Cybersecurity responsibility should be left up to a consortium of government and industry players, he said, and the private industry has had too much difficulty maintaining reliable cooperation with the intelligence community. He cited as an example the uncertainty over whether telecommunications firms were to receive immunity for agreeing to unlawfully open their networks to the NSA.

"Becoming subject to political factors no one can predict is not for them a very safe or advisable position," Freeh said.

Beckström's complaint against the concentration of power in the hands of the NSA is valid, Freeh said, since no single entity could properly provide nationwide cybersecurity.

"This problem is too large and too complicated to relegate it to a bureaucratic pigeonhole," he said.

The nature of cybersecurity, he said, has already resulted in pockets of expertise in multiple government agencies including the FBI, the NSA, and the military, as well as in the private sector. "That's not only a good thing, it is inevitable and irreversible," Freeh said.

While that expertise may exist, the government's cybersecurity efforts could be much improved, he said. Freeh said that so far, not enough emphasis has been put on the need to ensure privacy in cybersecurity efforts.

"We will not be able, as a government or private sector participant, be able to persuade people to support this if the privacy piece is lost," he said.

Ultimately, Freeh said, cybersecurity leadership has to come directly from President Obama.

"This is not going to be done by luck, or coincidence, or because everybody will agree on the formula," he said. "There has to be strong executive leadership."

[n3td3v]

At the end of the day DHS is a failed department of the failed Bush administration.

[mikel137]

That's almost an "of course". Security in a complex system should be HOLISTIC in its primary and fundamental highest priority activities. It should work the same on a very large scale - global and national - as it works on a regional, state, local or ISP scale.

[man_w_balls]

"Beckström's complaint against the concentration of power in the hands of the NSA is valid"

^^ especially since the NSA doesn't care about violating the 4th Amendment to the US Constitution
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22425001/vp/28781200#28781200

[gerrrg]

Whatever the case, keep it in the hands of career employees and out of the hands of political appointees, please.

[jethrobobflop]

DHS is incompetent and NSA is criminal. What's a nation to do?

[gsosbee]

See the evidence of fbi/cia efforts to dominate the world through inhumane & murderous methods;accept the cia/fbi as overlords, or STOP THEM; Do nothing and accept responsibility for their crimes against Humanity.




The tactics employed globally by the fbi/cia reflect the homicidal profile of the enforcers and perpetrators of the new, stagnant and completely controlled world. These tactics include, but are not limited to the following :



Mass murder (sometimes one at a time)

Torture (physical and psychological)

http://www.sosbeevfbi.com/affidavit2007.html

Terrorism

Blackmail (of a mortifying type)

Stalking and kidnapping and fraudulent stings by law enforcement

Burglary, robbery, theft, fraud, extortion

http://www.constitution.org/col/mwswear.htm


Abuse of civil process and disabling calumny
Financial isolation and ruination
Human experimentation (of a monstrous type)
Programming for suicide (inter alia) of the targeted individuals

http://www.sosbeevfbi.com/statement.html


Psychological operations and mind control
Psychoelectronic bombardment

Sosbee is an active victim/target of fbi/cia high tech assaults.
See links
http://www.sosbeevfbi.com/non-consensual.html


http://www.sosbeevfbi.com/hightechassau.html


http://londonontario.indymedia.org/?q=node/673


http://www.sosbeevfbi.com/part5-updatefor2.html


http://www.sosbeevfbi.com/part11-updatefor.html


C h e m i c a l , Viral & Biological Assaults:

http://www.sosbeevfbi.com/part16-updatefor.html

http://www.sosbeevfbi.com/tooth14.html

http://www.sosbeevfbi.com/letterformthemed.html

Psychoelectronic Assaults:
http://sosbeevfbi.ning.com/forum/topics/psychoelectronic-weapon

Nukings:
(Warning: graphic material, adult viewing only) To see what really can happen go to:
http://titan.iwu.edu/%7Erwilson/Peace.pdf

Intrusive, continuous and disturbing surveillance (physical and electronic) twenty four hours a day, seven days a week
-aided by tracking devices implanted in the person and properties of the Target
http://www.sosbeevfbi.com/tracking.html


http://www.sosbeevfbi.com/brainscanofsosbe.html

-with invasions into home, office and car; and with strategic tamperings therein designed to drive the Target insane

The fbi/cia agents, operatives, thugs, assigns, handlers and supporters are your neighbors, friends, relatives, spouses, representatives, doctors, etc.

Click here for "The Law Of The United States And All The Globe Under The New World Order"
http://www.sosbeevfbi.com/thelawoftheunite.html


Click here To See Evidence Of Corruption In The United States Embassies Worldwide
http://www.sosbeevfbi.com/psychotronicscon.html#dec 24 2005

USA Admission to Use of Neuronal Entrainment, Etc.:
See the following admission by USA, showing that my reports of high tech assaults on my person are legitimate.
The data shown in the Neuron Entrainment link below confirms that indeed the fbi/cia/marines, etc. have (and use) the high tech weaponry against human beings, and more particularly against this veteran:
Note that under the psychoelectronic bombardment, chemical and stalking sections (at ?world in a box?), there are several links; here are five more very important links to add to the list:
add to the list:
1)
C h e m i c a l, biological, and viral assaults on human beings
http://www.governmentattic.org/docs/FBI-Army_Bacteriological_Warfare-Weapons.pdf
2)
FBI efforts to hide identities of its thugs, thieves, assassins, dirty cops and self serving corrupt bureaucrats
http://www.governmentattic.org/docs/FBI_FOIPA_EffectOnLawEnforcement_2004.pdf
3)
Psychoelectronic bombardment http://www.governmentattic.org/docs/USMC_NeuronalEntrainment_NonlethalApplications_1998.pdf
4)
United States Army Civilian Inmate Labor program
http://www.apfn.org/pdf/prison_camps.pdf
5)
See Germs & Viruses 'Made In The USA'
http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2007_hr/germs.pdf



See the following links for more on fbi thuggery & homicidal mindset:
http://laura-knight-jadczyk.blogspot.com/2006/01/how-to-spot-cointelpro-agents.html
and:
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/FBI/Verelli_SecretWar_BDF.html
and:
http://justicedenied.org/issue/issue_27/steven_manning_awarded_6million.html
and:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/fedagencies/april97/fbi_4-16.html
and:
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/5/30/183028.shtml

[Farthing Haypenny]

That's amusing, ironic really. This country has been waiting for decades for the FBI to get their **** together regarding computers and computer crimes. The FBI spent many millions of dollars and two decades trying (and failing) to field computer systems for their own internal use. At least the NSA is competent.

[gsosbee]

Freeh knows all about abuse of power; he led the charge against Humanity most of his life.
Illegal funding for fbi/cia global terror campaign:
What needs to be funded?

http://www.sosbeevfbi.com/part4-worldinabo.html

How are the fbi/cia crimes funded?

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0401/S00151.htm

http://cleveland.indymedia.org/news/2009/03/35293.php
or
http://rochester.indymedia.org/newswire/display/22314/index.php

http://sosbeevfbi.ning.com/forum/topics/funding-sources-for-usas-intel

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