Draft Senate Bill: In Cybersecurity Emergencies, President Can Seize Control of Computer Networks

Citizens For Legitimate Government

10/7/2009

The President would be able to declare a Cybersecurity emergency and then direct the response to that threat

[A]ides to Senator Jay Rockefeller reportedly have been working recently on a revised draft Senate bill that would give the President broad powers in the event of a Cybersecurity emergency, and that apparently would go so far as allowing the President to temporarily seize control over computer networks in the private sector. This power is akin to the power President [sic] Bush exerted when he grounded commercial aircraft in the wake of the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks, according to a reported Senate source.

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