EDITORIAL LET'S MOVE ON.DURING Condoleezza Rice's testimony before the 9-11 Commission on Thursday Thursday: see week. , a briefing document from the CIA CIA: see Central Intelligence Agency. (1) (Confidentiality Integrity Authentication) The three important concerns with regards to information security. Encryption is used to provide confidentiality (privacy, secrecy). to President George George, river, c.345 mi (560 km) long, rising in a lake on the Quebec-Labrador boundary, E Canada. It flows N through Indian Lake (125 sq mi/324 sq km) to Ungava Bay (an arm of Hudson Strait). W. Bush a month before the terrorist attacks became the suspected smoking gun. The report, ``Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. ,'' contained only historical data, no new information, said the national security adviser. Under pressure, the Bush administration agreed on Friday to release the report to the commission this week so all will be able to judge for themselves whether Rice's construction or former security adviser Richard Clarke's is the truth. Perhaps the scrutiny of this internal document will provide more clues into how much the government knew or didn't know about the planned Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, but it certainly won't do anything to answer the more-pressing concerns of the moment. What the commission ought to be examining is whether the country is doing everything possible right now to prevent the next 9-11. The commission hearings have turned into a partisan Partisan may refer to: Political matters In politics, partisan literally means organized into political parties. The expression "Partisan politics" usually refers to fervent, sometimes militant support of a party, cause, faction, person, or idea. political game that is not therapeutic to the American public. This backward debate isn't doing anyone any good, and it certainly isn't helping solve the serious crises facing the country - the quagmire that has become Iraq, the unstable unstable, adj 1. not firm or fixed in one place; likely to move. 2. capable of undergoing spontaneous change. A nuclide in an unstable state is called radioactive. An atom in an unstable state is called excited. Middle East and the ever-present threat of another terrorist attack. Let the sun shine on the August 2001 report, then let's move on. |
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