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Cyber Command Chief Calls For Senate To Pass Cyber Security Legislation Now

Defense Daily Staff

Wednesday, August 1st, 2012

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Gen. Keith Alexander, the chief of the United States Cyber Command, yesterday called for the Senate to pass comprehensive bipartisan cyber security legislation this week that the chamber began discussing on Monday. “The time to act is now; we simply cannot afford further delay,” Alexander wrote Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.). The Senate agreed on Monday to proceed with the Cyber Security Act of 2012 (S. 3414). Consideration of the bill began yesterday but as of our deadline last…

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