Obama Cyber Czar to Regulate the Information Highway

This chilling story was written September 20, 2009, and I will post updates as I find them.

Bruce

"While the American people, the news media and most politicians are absorbed with proposed health care legislation, two pieces of legislation that were introduced in the U.S. Senate, if passed, will grant the President Barack Obama unprecedented power to access private Internet data, regulate cybersecurity in the private sector, and the authority to completely shutdown the Internet during a cyber emergency.

Senate bills 773 and 778, introduced by Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.V., are both part of what's being called the Cybersecurity Act of 2009, which would create a new Office of the National Cybersecurity Advisor, reportable directly to the president and charged with defending the country from cyber attack.

In addition, it will require professional IT people to be certified by the federal government..."