NSC WARNS OF ELECTRONIC PEARL HARBOR TO SPARK MAYHEM IF WAR BREAKS OUT

From Rayelan, Publisher of RMNews

This "Electronic Pearl Harbor" story smells like a good cover story --

First it was the Los Alamos hard drives and countless other records that were
lost due to the "fire". Now we are told that a "foreign country" is probing
our networks getting ready to create electronic mayhem if war breaks out.

WAR??? What war is about to break out??? Has the United States told its
citizens anything about an imminent war? Is this the first warning from our
goverment that we are about to enter a war? How long before Clinton committed
the United States to the war in Kosovo did America find out something was

going on there? A week -- two weeks? Did we get rumblings? Is this story a
rumbling of a coming war?

Where will the war break out? .... the war that Richard Clarke, a National
Security Staffer and top aide to President Clinton, is referring to? He
says that unspecified hostile countries were probing U.S. computer networks
for ways to spark mayhem if war broke out. "This is not theoretical. It's
real," he said

What wars are threatening to burst forth on our front door? We have the
border war in Arizona, there is a war in the Chiapas area of Mexico, there is
something brewing in Central America and South America is erupting in many
different places.

There are several articles on Stratfor that support my feeling that if there
is a war looming in the fading months of Clinton's regime, it will come from
South of our border ---

The Latin American Left Re-emerges

http://www.stratfor.com/SERVICES/GIU/FORECAST/decadetocome/latindecade2.asp

Colombia Creates Second Guerrilla Sanctuary

http://www.stratfor.com/SERVICES/giu2000/042700.ASP

The following URLs are the world wide hot spots that Stratfor has pinpointed
-- Colombia is number 10 -- It is the only hotspot identified that is in the
western hemisphere.

http://www.stratfor.com/hotspots/default.htm?section=7

Former Stratfor hotspots include North Korea --

http://www.stratfor.com/hotspots/archive.htm

Even though it appears that North and South Korea are trying to reach some
sort of resolution to their 50 year war, reports from RMNews Sources state
that North Korea is poised and ready to invade South Korea. Stratfor also
agrees that while "North Korea opens up diplomatic initiatives ... (it)
continues to pose threats to regional stability."

Which one of these hot spots is going to suddenly burst into a war that will
trigger an electronic Pearl Harbor for the purpose of causing mayhem in the
United States? Will this happen this summer? Will Clinton somehow try to
paylay this into martial law -- which should be called "martial rule" because
all "LAW" will be suspended!

Coming on the heels of the Los Alamos debacle -- this smells like a Clinton
Scheme to shift the focus from the greatest loss of national security secrets
in the history of the nation -- to a "hot" war and terrorist attacks by
hostile forces.... in other words -- A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER!!!

How many more times are the American people going to allow our goverment to
create wars, bombings, and terrorist attacks, and then use the power of the
government controlled media to whip up anger at the aggressors and bring
the nation together behind the President. It doesn't matter what President.

George Bush used Kuwaiti infants being thrown on the floor by the invading
Iraqis to whip up the needed patriotism which allowed him to send our boys
into a war that has never stopped for them .... i.e. Gulf War Syndrome.

Clinton did the same thing by talking about all the women who were raped and
the tens of thousands of dead Albanians who were buried in mass graves after
being butchered by the evil Serbs.

Both of these were later shown to be lies... but by the time the American
public put two and two together and realized they had been duped again -- the
wars were over. Serbia and Iraq were bombed back into the stone age -- and
America declared victory and went back to football.

Get ready -- The following article makes me think that very soon -- we are
going to have another slight of hand charade performed on us, and our
exhausted and depleted army will be shipped out to another foreign country.
Which one will it be this time? Arizona? Idaho? Colombia? Mexico?

But then again -- maybe the Electronic Pearl Harbor is just a way of hiding
all the other national security secrets that are now in the hands of our
enemies. If all our computers crash and the goverment loses all its
documents, how can anyone every prove we even HAD the national security
secrets that were stolen by our friends and enemies alike... with help from
the White House?

Will there be a Clinton legacy? If the United States survives, he will go
down in history as the man who single handedly placed the nation in the most
precarious position it has ever known!
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http://news.excite.com/news/r/000619/18/tech-security

Foreign powers probing U.S. networks: official

Updated 6:09 PM ET June 19, 2000
By Jim Wolf

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A top aide to President Clinton said Monday that
unspecified hostile countries were probing U.S. computer networks for ways to
spark mayhem if war broke out.

"This is not theoretical. It's real," said Richard Clarke, the White House
National Security Council staff coordinator for security, infrastructure
protection and counter-terrorism.

For years, Clarke has been warning of the threat of an "electronic Pearl
Harbor" in the form of blitzes on the computerized infrastructure that
increasingly binds the United States.

In remarks to a cyber-security conference, he said several countries were
carrying out "electronic reconnaissance today on our civilian infrastructure
computer networks."

They were "looking for ways that they could attack the United States in a
time of war," Clarke told the session organized by the American Enterprise
Institute, a public policy research group in Washington.

He declined to identify any power allegedly carrying out such surveillance
and also declined to contradict a fellow panel member, Richard Perle, who
singled out North Korea by name.

Perle, an assistant U.S. secretary of defense for international security
policy from 1981 to 1987, said U.S. authorities had detected "intrusions"
into U.S. networks from North Korea, the last Stalinist bastion. He said
North Korean hackers had left behind a malicious code designed for possible
activation as a kind of Trojan horse.

Pressed on the source of his information, Perle handed the question to
Clarke, who said he would leave it to the head of the Central Intelligence
Agency, George Tenet, to declassify the identities of alleged culprits.

CIA and other national security officials have told Congress that China and
Russia are among countries allegedly developing "information warfare"
capabilities to deal with lopsided U.S. conventional force strength.

For its part, the U.S. Defense Department plans to make cyber blitzes on a
foe's computer networks a standard tool of war, Air Force Gen. Richard Myers,
now the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in January.

POTENTIAL COMPUTER ATTACK

Clarke, in his comments to the conference, said he was trying to prod
Congress and the public to ward off a potential computer attack "in which
cities have lost electrical power and telephones, gas pipelines are blowing
up across the country, trains have been derailed across the country,"

"A lot of people are going to be willing to throw civil liberties out the
window" after any such computer attack, he said.

"I don't know that we had enemy aircraft flying over Pearl Harbor day after
day before the attack for reconnaissance," he said. "If we did, we might have
done something about it."

"Well, we have the equivalent today of enemy aircraft flying over the target
... doing electronic reconnaissance on our networks.

"And I cannot understand how we as a nation don't see that and don't react,"
Clarke added, faulting the Republican-led Congress for failing to fund new
cyber-security programs called for in Clinton's budget for fiscal 2001, which
begins Oct. 1.

Earlier in the day, U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno urged high-tech
companies to step up cooperation with law enforcement officials battling
cyber crime.

Acknowledging private-sector qualms about divulging security breaches, she
vowed to minimize the impact of federal investigations on cyber-crime victims.

"Today, I call on leaders in the high-tech industry to address this problem
and take concrete steps to report and encourage others to report cyber-crime
incidents to law enforcement," she told a "Cyber Crime summit" in Herndon,
Virginia, outside Washington.

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