Senate Votes Down Cybersecurity Act, Obama Likely to Sign Executive OrderSusanne Posel, Contributor Shawn Henry, a veteran of the cyber security division in the FBI, stated in a CBS interview that although he has no proof, Russia and China are behind infiltration and damage to computers in America, while also claiming that he feels it is very, very likely that a massive cyber-attack is due to occur. In the wake of Congressional inaction and Republican stall tactics, unfortunately, we will continue to be hamstrung by outdated and inadequate statutory authorities that the legislation would have fixed. Moving forward, the President is determined to do absolutely everything we can to better protect our nation against todays cyber threats and we will do that. An EO would be an illegal power grab in the vein of any would-be dictator. The National Security Agency (NSA) has begun scouting colleges and universities for the next generation of American-grown hackers. The NSA wants an elite team of computer geniuses that are trained in hacking before they obtain their college degree. The students selected to train under this program will not be privy to the impact their work will have on cyber intelligence, military capabilities and law enforcements expansion of spying on Americans. Neal Zing, technical director for the Information Assurance Directorate within the NSA, said: Back in 2011, Senator Joseph Lieberman wroteto Internet giant and NSA cooperative Google to gain their aid in censoring what he called jihadist content from blogger Jose Pimentel. Lieberman wrote: Censorship and control of the Internet has been a favorite of the Obama administration. They have claimed that the infrastructure of the nation is susceptible to hacker infiltration. In the agenda to lockdown the Internet, the hackers have been quite useful. They have created the perfect nameless, faceless bogeyman. Lieberman has also been behind the Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act, from 2010. In its current incarnation, the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 has beenblockedby a Senate vote of 52 to 46 which stopped the legislation dead in its tracks. In March of this year, members of the Senate met behind closed doors to attend a briefing by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), where a staged cyber-attackwas performed with the intent to provide all senators with an appreciation for new legislative authorities that would help the US government prevent and more quickly respond to cyber-attacks. The focus of the attacks were US banks, power grids and telecommunications systems. However these systems are not connectedto the Internet and therefore that argument is moot. In fact, the power grid and public water systems are rarely connected directly to the public internet. And that makes gaining access to grid-controlling networks a challenge for all but the most dedicated, motivated and skilled nation-states, in other words. The most curious recent hacker threat comes from CIA-controlled groups like Anonymous who mysteriously infiltratedthe main database of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the collection agency for the privately-owned Federal Reserve Bank. They retrieved Mitt Romneys tax returns, dating back 25 years to expose his lack of payment to the IRS, which covertly is a pro-Obama move to make Romney look bad in the public perspective. Back in April, Anonymous was used to scare the Congress into supporting the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 when at theannual RSA conference, CEOs from major corporations came together to voice their concerns over hackers and admonish the US government for better security when it comes to cyber-attacks by spies, criminals and activists. Anonymous and LulzSec (a pseudonym of the hacker group) were named at the conference. The purposeof any and all cybersecurity legislation is to not only combine the US governments ability through various agencies to collect data on unsuspecting Americans and decide who or what a threat is and have the legal-backing to act accordingly. The broad definitions of terrorism under the Cybersecurity Act of 2012, and the fact that the NSA recruits hackers points to the entire issue being a false flag with one mission: restrict the free-flow of information on the Internet. You can support this information by voting for it on Reddit HERE Susanne Posel is the Chief Editor of Occupy Corporatism. Our alternative news site is dedicated to reporting the news as it actually happens; not as it is spun by the corporately funded mainstream media. You can find us on ourFacebook page. 