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US cybersecurity shake up would give prez more control

Tom Maddox

Riiiight 

Stop

We can put W in charge (maybe he can use "The Google" to find a candidate) or McCain (he can find one after he gets done tying an onion to his belt). Why not, instead, pick someone who's not completely incompetent to run the DHS or, even better, disband it entirely?

Anonymous Coward

Election time.... 

Remember 2004 when Bush started barring foreign IP addresses from his website to prevent 'cyberattacks'

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2668-2004Oct27.html

Is it election time again?

Pyros

Rudderless? 

It's got a captain in adult nappies with a crayon-scrawled "letter of marquis" clutched in his hand!

Rudderless is the only way THAT ship won't sail straight--now if we can just get rid of his sails and masts...

Anonymous Coward

can't we get rid of these idiots? 

Pirate

someone please arrest Chertoff and his boss and throw away the key. the last thing we need is more power grab by any current or future idiot in the white house.

Anonymous Coward

So what was it before? 

Pirate

A Congressional appointment? It wasn't an elected post, I suspect. So how does making it a Presidential appointment improve anything, except by making the Administration's job easier if it wants to stage a coup, be it ever so subtle?