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dlindorff - Posted on 20 March 2013   By Alfredo Lopez  Last
week, a top U.S. government intelligence official named James
Clapper warned Congress that the threat of somebody using the
Internet to attack the United States is "even more pressing than
an attack by global terrorist networks". At about the same time,
Keith Alexander, the head of the National Security Agency,
announced that the government is forming 13 teams to conduct an
international "cyber offensive" to pre-empt or answer "Internet
attacks" on this country.  This, as they say, means war.
Clapper issued his melodramatic assessment during an appearance
before the Senate Intelligence Committee. As Director of
National Intelligence, he testified jointly with the heads of
the CIA and FBI as part of their annual "Threat To the Nation"
assessment report.  While undoubtedly important, these "threat
assessment" appearances are usu