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Controversial Cyber-Bill Passes Senate Homeland Security Committee
| 2010-06-25 |
A U.S. senate committee has approved a sweeping piece of legislation that creates a new cyber-security office within the White House and expands the authority of the Department of Homeland Security in securing critical infrastructure.
U.S. Senate committee has given the thumbs up to a controversial cyber-security bill that some claim expands executive powers too far in the event of a cyber-attack.
The Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act (PDF) was approved by the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee today in a unanimous vote. Critics have accused the bill’s authors of giving the president the authority to shut down parts of the Internet in the event of an attack, something Lieberman and others say is exaggerated. The legislation, supporters argue, mandates among other things that the president use the “least disruptive means feasible” to respond to a threat.
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