On his last full day in office, former President Clinton appointed 21 members to a newly established council that will advise President George W. Bush on ways to protect the nation's most critical computer systems from cyber attack. The new . . .
On his last full day in office, former President Clinton appointed 21 members to a newly established council that will advise President George W. Bush on ways to protect the nation's most critical computer systems from cyber attack. The new group to which the appointments were made - the National Infrastructure Assurance Council (NIAC) - was conceived of in 1997 as a group of CEOs from the nation's leading companies in virtually every major infrastructure sector, including energy, telecommunications, transportation, and banking that would advise the president in the event of a cyber attack on one or more of these critical sectors.

But coming as they did on the last day of the Clinton administration's reign in the White House, the appointments already have been reviled as a wasted opportunity and an unfortunate partisan jab.

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