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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: stockman_scott who wrote (51186)10/3/2004 5:45:33 PM
From: ChinuSFORespond to of 81568
 
So much for Bush claiming (lying again) that he knows how to fight terror, that he will keep our homeland secure, yaadi, yaadi, yaada.

U.S. Cybersecurity Chief Abruptly Resigns
By TED BRIDIS

WASHINGTON (AP) - The government's cybersecurity chief has abruptly resigned from the Homeland Security Department amid a concerted campaign by the technology industry and some lawmakers to persuade the Bush administration to give him more authority and money for protection programs.

Amit Yoran, a former software executive from Symantec Corp., made his resignation effective Thursday as director of the National Cyber Security Division, giving a single's day notice of his intention to leave. He kept the job one year.

Yoran has privately confided to industry colleagues his frustrations in recent months over what he considers the department's lack of attention paid to computer security issues, according to lobbyists and others who recounted these conversations on condition they not be identified because the talks were personal.

contd at ... cnn.netscape.cnn.com