Re: [iwar] latest scaremonger story


From: David Kennedy CISSP
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At 05:45 PM 12/29/00 -0000, Wanja Eric Naef \(IWS\) wrote:
>I am wondering whether the gov and mil InfoSec people are desperate
>for money as they release one scare story after another (see
>Newsbyte article below).  


The observed phenomenon may be an occurrence of what's known as
"justifying one's existence prior to a new Administration coming in
and deciding whether one exists or not."  I've been given to
understand the basis for NIPC's existence is a Presidential Decision
Directive (PDD-63), not an Executive Order or an act of Congress. 
PDD's essentially expire at the end of the administration that issues
them, while EO and Public Laws do not.

They have an appropriation ($s) and an authorization (authority to
spend $s) from the Congress for the rest of the fiscal year (end of
September), but I am not aware of a persistent reason to exist, and
have heard anecdotally that there is some large measure of
uncertainty among the NIPC staff. 


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Regards,

David Kennedy CISSP
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