Depending on your point of view, the Department of Homeland Security either does too much or does not enough. And President Bush's former cybersecurity advisor might fall into the latter category - he told Congress April 8 that the new department is lacking in resources and expertise against cyberterrorism and other Bush Administration cybersecurity goals.
Richard Clarke left the White House in February, and he told lawmakers that dismissing the consequences of attacks on American computer networks is a "dangerous" tendency, according to the Washington Post.
"For many, the cyber threat is hard to understand; no one has died in a cyberattack, after all, there has never been a smoking ruin for cameras to see," he told lawmakers on a House Government Reform subcommittee. "It is the kind of thinking that said we never had a major foreign terrorist attack in the United States, so we never would; al Qaeda has just been a nuisance, so it never will be more than that."
Clarke called for a National Cybersecurity Center which includes top computer security experts, the Post said, as well as a federal chief information security officer with power over all federal agencies.
