[IP] Air Force Guards Cyberspace

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Jim Warren <jwarren@mail.well.com>
Date: December 10, 2005 1:48:11 PM EST
To: dave@farber.net
Cc: Jean Armour Polly <mom@netmom.com>
Subject: Re: [IP] Air Force Guards Cyberspace

Well ... I guess that's just one more Bush-administration violation  
of the Posse Comitatus Act, that prohibited using the military to  
conduct civilian law-enforcement functions.  At what point should we  
begin to consider ourselves a (so to speak) "military police" state? ;-)

Aside from that however -- since when did the Air Force have  
expertise beyond what the FBI has and/or could develop, to "fight"  
the "war" in cyberspace, as our CIVILIAN federal law-enforcement  
agency?!  (Note:  The military does, however, operate under a much  
broader cloak of secrecy!)

--jim


> From: Jean Armour Polly <mom@netmom.com>
> Date: December 10, 2005 10:33:07 AM EST
> To: David Farber <dave@farber.net>
> Subject: Air Force Guards Cyberspace
>
> Dave- we can all feel more secure now. The Air Force has added to  
> its mission statement:
> "The mission of the United States Air Force is to deliver sovereign  
> options for the defense of the United States of America and its  
> global interests--to fly and fight in Air, Space, and Cyberspace."
> Actual statement and more here:
> http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123013440
> Article here:
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20051209/tc_pcworld/123881


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