From the Radio Free Michigan archives ftp://141.209.3.26/pub/patriot If you have any other files you'd like to contribute, e-mail them to bj496@Cleveland.Freenet.Edu. ------------------------------------------------ >From WASHINGTON TECHNOLOGY, the "Business Newspaper for Federal Systems Integrators." by Neil Munro, staff writer [Selected dreadful parts presented, to be sure to meet "fair use" rules] White House Security Panels Raise Hackles A White House effort to coordinate security policy for the government's classified and unclassified information is sparking opposition from the same groups that stopped the stillborn Clipper chip initiative. The dispute will slow the formulation of a governmentwide information protection plan, increasingly vital to both commerce and national security. In the latest move, the multiagency U.S. Security Policy Board is trying to draw up a governmentwide security policy for data, communications and computer systems. And it is attempting to build bridges between the policies that govern the security of classified and unclassified information, said Peter Saderholm, the board's secretary who has worked for many years in the CIA's photograph interpretation branch. ... [T]he board was barely out of the starting gates when information-privacy groups pounced on papers prepared by the board .... The Nov. 21 paper, titled "Creating a New Order in U.S. Security Policy," also called for creation of a new category of information, dubbed national security related information. ... [Ed. note: didn't Reagan try this and get excoriated?] [C]ritics may view the board as a "wholly owned subsidiary of the Pentagon and the CIA," ... said Keith Hall, the Pentagon's deputy assistant secretary of intelligence... Also, Hall said he hoped to see a single working group created to coordinate policies being created by the board and Vice President Al Gore's National Information Infrastructure Task Force. Mike Nelson, Gore's technology advisor, said the board and the task force are working on different areas of the security problem, adding that the board could contribute to the task force's decisionmaking. The U.S. Security Policy Board was created and put under the control of the White House's National Security Council by the Presidential Decision Directive 29. Its 12 members include John Deutch, the deputy secretary of defense, Adm. William Studeman, the director of central intelligence, Janet Reno, the attorney general, as well as senior officials from other agencies... The controversy over the National Security Agency's Clipper chip may be a cautionary tale - and many believe a similar firestorm of protest would be unleashed should the board press ahead with its plans to build bridges between the security policies for unclassified and classified data. ... Many of these political issues have already crippled a more ambitious effort by the Pentagon to win White House approval for a national information warfare strategy, designed to protect military, federal and commercial information systems from attacks during a war or crisis. Pentagon officials working for Emmett Paige ...have drafted a Presidential Review Directive titled "Policy on IW for Presidential Decision Directive," but the policy document has not won final approval within the Pentagon... The information warfare strategy - and security policy in general - raise many difficult technical, legal, and even constitutional problems, said Jeffery Smith, a Washington lawyer. Smith headed President Clinton's Joint Security Commission that helped establish the security board. The basic question, he said, boils down to, "What is the responsibility of a government to protect its citizenry?" "It's a hell of a problem (and is) much, much trickier" than the Clipper problem, he said. 2/23/95 -- Stanton McCandlish
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