CNN Broadcasts Major Cyber War Game Propaganda

It's just too convenient, isn't it? First the government fabricates a non-existent threat of cyber-attack. Then just for you skeptics who may have noticed cyber-attacks aren't exactly destroying this country, a security firm tells us that hackers have attacked over 2,000 "in almost 200 countries" (so then, basically, every country on Earth?) over the last year and a half. This isn't exactly news to me, but I'm sure for a lot of people that seems like justification enough to hand the keys to the internet over to the UN and force us all to get 'drivers' licenses' to access it.

Now out comes CNN to scare us about how deadly a cyber attack would really be. Well, not deadly, really, just really annoying. Kind of like Wolf Blitzer. Fortunately no one really watches CNN, but you can be sure that Fox is frantically trying to get behind the ball on this one, just like they shilled for the government over swine flu.

Kurt Nimmo
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CNN rolled out a slick propaganda presentation this evening. It is called “Cyber Shockwave” and it posits a cyber attack on the United States.



From the NewsonNews website:

CNN will air a two-hour production, We Were Warned: Cyber Shockwave, based upon exclusive television access to a national security cyber “war game” scenario. The simulated event was developed by The Bipartisan Policy Center and will debut Saturday, Feb. 20 and Sunday, Feb. 21 at 8pm, 11pm and 2am ET on CNN. The scenario was created by Fmr. CIA Director, General Michael Hayden (ret.) as well as the co-chairs of the 9/11 Commission, Fmr. Rep. Lee Hamilton (D-IN) and Fmr. Gov. Thomas Kean (R-NJ).

The simulation includes the usual government insiders acting as government officials (no acting required — they are all former government officials) who have gathered in the “situation room” to confront a cyber attack shutting down telecommunications and the power grid on the east coast.

Additional participants who served various roles for the scenario are: Fmr. U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, Fmr. Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte, Fmr. White House Homeland Security Advisor and CNN contributor Fran Townsend, Fmr. Director of Central Intelligence John McLaughlin, Fmr. U.S. Senator Bennett Johnston, Jr. (D-LA), Fmr. National Economic Council Director Stephen Friedman, Fmr. U.S. Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick, Fmr. White House Press Secretary Joe Lockhart, Fmr. National Security Agency General Counsel Stewart Baker, and Gen. Charles Wald, USAF (Ret.), former Deputy Commander of the United States European Command.

How should the government deal with the threat? Federalize the National Guard to deal with unruly mobs freaking out over the loss of electricity. Nationalize utility companies so the NSA and the government get electricity. The participants also recommended new powers be granted to the president. Not surprisingly, they declared the president has the authority to take unprecedented action against the states and the private sector under the Constitution.

CNN and the participants agreed the slick propaganda presentation is aimed at the American people.

Infowars.com will post video of the simulation when it becomes available.

Earlier in the week, a new computer virus infected almost 75,000 computers worldwide — including 10 U.S. government agencies — collecting login credentials from online financial, social networking sites and email systems and reporting back to hackers, according to the New York Daily News. The FBI, Department of State and Department of Homeland Security were notified. The attacks are attributed to “criminal hackers.”

On February 4, the House overwhelmingly passed The Cybersecurity Enhancement Act (H.R. 4061), a bill that requires the Obama administration to conduct an agency-by-agency assessment of cybersecurity workforce skills and establishes a scholarship program for undergraduate and graduate students who agree to work as cybersecurity specialists for the government after graduation, according to The New York Times. The bill represents yet another intrusion into the private sector by the Obama administration and Congress.

Rep. Michael McCaul, a Texas Democrat, says he is optimistic about the bill’s chances in the Senate. “When you’re talking about science and technology and national security,” said McCaul, “those are elements we should all be able to work together (on); Democrat, Republican, and that’s what we saw on the House floor,” McCaul told Homeland Seucirity Newswire.