STEVE PIECZENIK TALKS

Amidst Distracting Turmoil of Gun Control, President Obama has increased his executive WAR power in a secret legal review!

U.S. Pre-Emptive Digital Strike in CYBERWAR!!
 

Gottcha! Mr and Ms America…. 

Once again, while we were feasting over the success and failures of the Ravens vs. the 49ers, wondering whether Beyonce, once again, pulled a MILLI VANILLI [She did!],  POTUS slipped in an executive ACT OF WAR without congressional review or civil discussion!

For those of you who are too worried about your Second Amendment, the next gun show or maybe even the hostage situation in Alabama,  you may have missed that POTUS CLEVERLY  ASSIGNED TO HIMSELF in a SECRET LEGAL REVIEW ---(forgetta bout transparency,  Donnie Brasco)---the ability to approve the nation’s first rule for how the military can defend and/or retaliate against a MAJOR CYBERATTACK. 

  What does this mean for you and me, the ordinary citizen? 

It means in simple language that the US INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES (about sixteen different ones in DOD alone) can ‘carry out searches of faraway computer networks for SIGNS OF POTENTIAL ATTACKS on the  USA’. 

  Are there any lawyers among my readers who can clarify this pronouncement?

  Before you answer, let me elaborate a little bit more. 

  If POTUS perceives a potential threat to our infrastructures or any part of our country because of a digital attack,  he now has the power to order a counter-attack, or a PRE-EMPTIVE attack against any adversary and INJECT THEM (whomever them may be)  WITH A DESTRUCTIVE CODE!

  And here is the zinger!
As soon as you thought Bush Jr had disappeared from the political landscape, his legacy of “PRE-EMPTIVE ATTACKS” (don’t forget to thank, Condi as well!) casts a wide and highly granulated penumbra [ie ‘shadow’ for those taking the LSAT exams] over this Obama Administration. 

  For those liberals who want no more wars… Forgetta ‘bout it!  Sec Def Panetta and General Dempsey have both decided that we still need soldiers stationed in Afghanistan for indefinite period.

  For what? 

 I don’t know what to say except that defending a corrupt,  ex-Silver Spring Maryland delicatessen owner, President Karzai of Afghanistan, is clearly NOT worth the blood and guts of American Warriors and trillions of American dollars.   Wait,  didn’t Obama promise to pull out all soldiers by 2014? 

  So they lie! Forgetta ‘bout it!! 

  What’s one lie more or less in the Realpolitick scheme of things? 

  So this increased War Power Act of Obama’s was created by guess who? 

  My favorite White House “Choir Boy”—John O. Brennan, Obama’s chief of Counter Terrorism and nominee for the Director of the CIA [DCI]. 

I am beginning to understand that in the business of intelligence, no matter how bad or good you might be, one can’t really keep a “GOOD MAN DOWN!” 

  Forget about the 9/11 false flag;  the Osama Bin Laden travesties [from ‘HERE TO ETERNITY’]; the merciless drone attacks on countless innocent victims around the world; the Sandy Hook a la FEMA farce; and so on …now we have a secret cabal of decision makers who feel that they can bring our nation to war without our civil consent. 

Boy , have  we been FLIM –FLAMMED !

This POTUS makes Billy Boy Clinton look like a Boy Scout!

  Hell, “I did not inhale” and “I did not have sex with that woman”—that’s nothing compared to Obama.   Remember Clinton’s palaver?

 Go back to it, some day.  I don’t have the time or inclination.  It’s an exhausting and desultory exercise in FUTILITY. 

  So what’s the reason for this sudden NON-ANNOUNCEMENT and NON-DISCUSSION of a MAJOR ISSUE LIKE WAR? 

Recent Chinese cyber-attacks on major US newspapers: The  NY Times [they did a brilliant article on Chinese Government corruption];  the Wall Street Journal [they do an excellent job of  delving into US and worldwide business malfeasance including their own owner Rupert Murdoch];  and the Washington Post—have required a response from the administration regarding Cyberwar. 

  From my point of view,  Cyberwar is the major outstanding issue for US National Security,  in addition to the national debt. 

  It’s been a longstanding problem with which I have had a tangential interest. 

Cyberweaponry is the newest and most complex program regarding our national security.  This issue was so important that a special division of the military was appropriately created to address the growing problem of aggressive, offensive cyber-attacks from China, Russia, Iran, and other parts of the globe.

  This EXTREMELY IMPORTANT  Unit is called “CYBER COMMAND” and is located at the National Security Agency [NSA—where we have SIGINT, ELINT] and is overseen by an extremely competent, brilliant General Keith Alexander—the PENULTIMATE SCHOLAR WARRIOR!!  I am impressed by his competence, foresight and strategic sense of what this nation needs for Cyber War.

I personally had the good fortune this year to have met this extremely articulate, witty General (with four different Master Degrees—makes me feel ‘inadequate’) at the TECHNET conference in Baltimore sponsored by AFCEA International [I strongly recommend that my readers get the AFCEA Magazine called “SIGNAL”] 

For those of you who don’t know what AFCEA stands for and that means almost all of us---here it is: The Association for Communications, Electronics, Intelligence, and Information Systems Professionals and the publisher of SIGNAL based in Fairfax, Virginia. www.Afcea.org

WOW! It’s a mouthful but it’s well worth joining it.

Trust me, I am a technical KLUTZ!!!

Let me share with you, my dear readers, why I think that Cyber War and Cyber Security are important for you and me and the nation---despite the secret way that the laws were implemented. 

  For many of you who know something about my history,  I apologize in having to reiterate the fact that in 1973, I was taught by Professor Ithiel de Sola Pool, about the internet and social media. This course was sponsored by the DARPA and the CIA---remember that.  It’s important!

  Next I had the good fortune to team up with a talented Baltimore writer by the name of Tom Clancy and together we produced a series of novels that really presaged the future of cyberwar, cyber terrorism, the absence of the nation state. 

  Of course, the series was entitled Tom Clancy’s Net Force.   We even had a group of books that were written for young adults.  Unfortunately, that series did not do as well as the Tom Clancy’s Op Center series. 

But that is the fortune, or misfortunes, of publishing.  Despite all that, Berkley Books, a division of Pearson Publishing, was an outstanding literary house.  So it was not the publishers or the writers’ fault.  It was just, I believe, ahead of it’s time.  The concept of the Internet becoming a defining entity or FORCE,  so to speak literally, was one that was very hard to grasp—especially twenty to thirty years ago. 

I must note that the NET Force books were a product created from the incredible collaboration of a very talented Martin Greenberg who had been one of the most experienced Science Fiction/Mystery writers/publishers and his precocious associate Larry Segriff. 

  In a massive collaboration, books concerning the nature of the new state without borders called “Cybernation” co-opted the unification of the European Union [EU].  Then, the creation of Net Force anticipated the FBI and the Intelligence/Military Communities patrolling the NET for National Security purposes. 

  Then, if there is cybernation, and cyber patrol, one had to have had “Cyber Terrorism” and “Cyber War”. 

That’s how my days of writing fiction evolved into a real life experience of trying to keep up with the world of the internet.

  What this meant, is that from a strategic point of view, Cyber War would require all kinds of new laws of war and military engagement that addressed the lethal absurdity that the digits one and zero could create or dismantle nation states and critical infrastructures. 

  Truthfully, even though  I had created these books with my esteemed colleagues, I have no visual or visceral perspective of what a cyber-attack would look like until I created and executive produced a TV Miniseries called “Net Force”.   This was an ABC Television endeavor [great people at ABC—again not their fault!] but ahead of it’s time. 

Timing is everything in life, books, TV, and politics. 

  So what did I realize when we were in post-production? 

  The scene in which the multiple infrastructures were damaged by a cyber attack was APPALLING. 

  I saw for the first time outside of my own imagination, how planes would drop from the sky. Power plants would shut down. Hospitals became the very patients whom they were treating—Basket Cases!

 Everything and anything that was attached to our high tech society was completely vulnerable.

 It was eerie watching one’s own creation come to life on TV.  But it was also sobering. 

  I realized that what I had envisioned in my books thirty years ago could become a HORRENDOUS REALITY.

  So I began to read SIGNAL magazine and began to attend the AFCEA conferences to learn more about this new war. 

  I don’t mean to scare you, my readers, but for a very long time,  I have been waiting for the creation of a Cyber Command.  Frankly, without any further discussion, I believed and still do that it should be at the Cabinet Level of Representation.  It’s as important, if not more important, than HUD, HHS, AGRICULTURE, etc. 

 If we don’t address this fundamental issue of how we manage and counter manage the world of zeroes and ones, there is very little that we have to worry about.

  The least of which is that desultory issue of GUN CONTROL. 

  The Constitution and the FOUNDING FATHERS could not have anticipated the advent of a war of electrons despite the fact that Benjamin Franklin as an entrepreneur had played around with electricity. 

  The point here, Mr and Ms America, is quite simple. 

It’s easy to distract us with faux issues or over emphasize other less relevant issues, but how can you blame a POTUS, like Obama, who knew that he could pass a SECRET LAW when no one REALLY CARED ABOUT THE ISSUE. 

Please understand our Founding Fathers and their precepts that KNOWLEDGE and INFORMATION about the government and how it works depends on an educated citizenry.

  Obsessing on gun control and Sandy Hook false flags while the PRESIDENCY accrued more and more power—shame on us and our representatives in both Congress and the Senate. 

  Our wars will now be Cyberwars!

The American citizenry through their informed opinions and intelligent representation must provide the checks and balances on the ever increasing powers of the executive branch.

  Whether the president acts on our behalf or not is not the issue.  The issue is that for a very long time, our PRESIDENTS have assumed that we, the people are stupid! 

  Are we? 

PROVE OUR PRESIDENTS WRONG. 

Write to your representatives, petition the administration and DEMAND A HEARING ON THIS VERY, VERY IMPORTANT ISSUE OF CYBER WAR.   How much power should the president have vs. the representative (of us, the citizens of the US) body of congress!  

Otherwise, don’t worry, there will always be another false flag waiting in the wings, that’s our history: Pearl Harbor, Gulf of Tonkin, 9/11,  Sandy Hook- add or subtract the ones you like/don’t like. 

The ULTIMATE GUN CONTROL resolution resides in the following idiom: 

FORE-WARNED IS FORE-ARMED!!!

Remember those ones and zeros encompass more than  just Facebook, Twitter, My Space, Social Networks, You Tube, Email…. They are the very foundations of our AMERICAN Life as we know it and an increasing National Security Threat !

EXCITO SURSUM!!!

WAKE UP! People.