This is how ill-prepared the federal government is to protect itself against terrorist attacks: Many of its agencies don’t even know which buildings and computer networks to defend.
In 1998, the Clinton administration ordered the Departments of Energy, Commerce, and Health and Human Services, as well as the Environmental Protection Agency, to each come up with a list of crucial equipment, buildings and information technology that must be protected under any circumstance.
But nearly five years later — and more than 18 months after Sept. 11 — none of these agencies has completed its list, according to a report released Wednesday by the Government Accounting Office, Congress’ investigative arm. And none of the agencies has comprehensive plans for keeping these assets safe.
My Wired News story has more.
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Can we stop the airport chirade? These people who are checking individuals could & should be replaced with technology.Why is no one checking the luggage? Isnt that where you would put an explosive?I have never seen a bomb sniffing dog at OHare? Is there any there?Our country is flushing Billions down the drain on entry –level workers that are looking in the wrong places to begin with. What is taking so long with finferprint I.D. or video scanning they use in private enterprise?The US should be on the cutting edge not the cutting floor!