We Fail More—So Put Us in Charge

The Washington Post reports today on an article coming out in Foreign Affairs in which Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III reveals a successful 2008 intrusion into military computer systems. Malicious code placed on a thumb drive by a foreign intelligence agency uploaded itself onto a network run by the U.S. military's Central Command and propagated itself across a number of domains.

The Post article says that Lynn "puts the Homeland Security Department on notice that although it has ...