Saturday, October 30, 2010

Napolitano: Military to aid civilian cybersecurity

(Originally published Oct. 28, 2010)
By DAN ELLIOTT
Associated Press

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- The Defense Department's supersecret National Security Agency can be used "appropriately" on civilian cybersecurity matters, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Thursday.

Napolitano said an agreement between the military and Homeland Security, announced this month, takes privacy and civil liberties into account.

"We're not going to have two NSAs, we're going to have one NSA that can appropriately be used for defense purposes but also appropriately used for civilian purposes," Napolitano told the National Symposium on Homeland Security and Defense.

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