No. 1 priority for US security: domestic terrorism, threat report says

[ixion]

Source: Christian Science Monitor

“They are now resorting to other ways to go after this country,” said CIA Director Leon Panetta. “That’s the nature of the kind of threats that we are now dealing with.” While these potential attacks are likely to be less sophisticated, he added, Americans who might take part in them are “tougher to find.”

Mr. Leiter of the National Counterterrorism Center warned that these Americans are also increasingly linking up with each other through internet forums like Facebook. The challenge, he added, is identifying these people while still protecting US civil liberties.
60,000 malicious programs and viruses ID'ed each day

At the same time, the nation’s intelligence agencies are grappling mightily with cyberattacks, which are growing in frequency and in effectiveness. Mr. Clapper estimates that there are some 60,000 new malicious programs and viruses “identified each day.” The loss of intellectual property to cybercrime has cost businesses worldwide “approximately $1 trillion,” he added.

“The incredible loss of US intellectual property through cyberespionage is something that could sap American power not just in the long term but in the medium term,” says Kristen Lord, vice president of the Center for a New American Security, which is in the midst of conducting a year-long cybersecurity research project.

Read more: http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2011/0210/No.-1-priority-for-US-security-domestic-terrorism-threat-report-says

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You may think that "domestic terrorism" is confined to RW survivalist types, but their actions show that this really isn't the target. Anti-war groups, Vegetarian groups, environmentalists groups are equally targeted. If this crap is allowed to become 'common knowledge' that will pretty much be the last nail in the coffin of our civil liberties.

[RandomThoughts]

1. Number one priority is to get me the beer and travel money I am due.

And that is literal, although I was saying that before I realized it is also a metaphor.

The other priorities that were before that have been tended to.

So someone needs to send me the beer and travel money that is due.

[Wilms]

3. And, perhaps a little spam to wash it down with. n/t

[RandomThoughts]

4. Spam indicates you have seen many of the posts.

If you are above acceptable consolidation level, know that you may be responsible for that payment of beer and travel money. Or in the least, you are responsible for not telling consolidations they need to correct that, to save them from the effects of not doing that.

[glinda]

2. Funny that they approve of Egypt's people demanding a fair shake but are

afraid if Americans would organize for it.
I am saying this because am sure it extends beyond viruses and cyber-attacks.

[lunatica]

5. Why do I feel they're setting us up for one of two possibilities?

First possibility is are they setting us up so they can take our civil rights away from us by terrorizing us with imaginary threats? Or the second possibility is are they setting us up so when the next terrorist attack comes they can say they warned us?

These statements are just too convenient. Are they trying to protect themselves from the inevitable blowup of recriminations after we're attacked again, or are they just softening us up with fear so they can use a kill switch of the intertubes?

Man! I've gotten so jaded!

[ixion]

6. kick

kinda surprised this sank like a stone.

[cutlassmama]

7. K&R

[Solly Mack]

8. K&R