Sunday, March 28, 2004

Digging Around in Electronic History

On the homepage of my ISP provider, there is always a blurb about some historical happening for the day in history.  For example, today in history, in 1979 to be exact, the Three Mile Island incident occurred.

What I am going to link to did not happen on March 28 in history.  The link points to an article published on June 18, 2001. The article is titled “Preparing for The Next Pearl Harbor Attack."

Gary Cruse, at The Owner’s Manual, dug this up and excerpted the following from the article, in a post titled “Not So Asleep at the Wheel."

"After years of dithering under Clinton, say defense specialists, the Bush White House is taking the matter seriously. “Virtually every vital service: water supplies, transportation, energy, banking and finance, telecommunications, public health - all of these rely on computer and fiber-optic lines, the switches and routers that come from them,” notes National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice. These are vulnerable.

In the short time since his inauguration in January, Bush has instructed government offices to coordinate for homeland security and defense, and assigned Vice President Richard Cheney to head a group to draft a national terrorism-response plan by October 1."

Posted by John Venlet on 03/28 at 12:12 PM
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