The co-chairmen of the 9/11 Commission denounced the jurisdictional conflicts over...
The co-chairmen of the 9/11 Commission denounced the jurisdictional conflicts over the Senate’s cybersecurity approaches, in a letter sent Monday to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. Former Republican New Jersey Gov. Thomas…
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Kean and former Rep. Lee Hamilton, D-Ind., told the leaders that comprehensive legislation is needed to address the nation’s cybersecurity response and the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee is the right committee to handle it. “This homeland security issue is too critical for it to succumb” to the “jurisdictional and procedural objections to considering cybersecurity legislation,” they said. Last week Senate leaders from at least six different committees sparred over the merits of two dueling cybersecurity bills, the SECURE IT Act (S-2151) and the Cybersecurity Act (S-2105) (WID March 2 p1). Much like the days before the Sept. 11 attacks, the federal government is “not adequately organized to deal with a significant emerging national security threat,” the letter said. “With cyber attacks becoming more sophisticated and pervasive, it is paramount that the federal government takes the steps necessary to prepare the nation to prevent and mitigate the effects of potentially catastrophic cyber attacks on the nation’s critical infrastructure,” it said.