They provide the president and his advisers prized information through high-resolution images on every national security issue, including Chinese naval deployment and Iraq's rebuilding of its chemical weapons plants.
- Do you really believe current advisers volunteer information that would cause you to terminate their services?
It stands to reason, when advisers control information you hear what they want you to hear.
- Do you really believe prospective advisers volunteer information that would damage their sales success?
Mr. Dobrin serves as the citywide technology officer, the liaison to the Silicon Alley business community and the mayor's chief adviser on information technology.
Begin chose Mr. Katz as his adviser for information abroad and sent him to several countries, including to the United States for meetings with President Carter, to counter perceptions that Begin was a wild-eyed terrorist and reactionary.
"Lear's mistake, as I recall, was to divide the kingdom in three parts," said Reed E. Hundt, a former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission who is now senior adviser on information technologies at McKinsey & Company.
Mr. Nicholson, who has been secretary since January 2005, has responded to the episode by forcing out some subordinates and hiring a former Arizona prosecutor, Richard Romley, as a special adviser for information security.
Meanwhile, Jim Nicholson, secretary of veterans affairs, said he had named a former Arizona prosecutor, Richard Romley, as a special adviser for information security, a new three-month post that will pinpoint security problems.
A Pentagon adviser on information warfare told me that it could have been an attempted "semantic attack," in which the virus or worm is designed to fool its victim into thinking that its computer systems are functioning properly, when in fact they are not, and may not have been for some time.
