The Washington Post’s Walter Pincus reports that a pending CIA budget would give billions to something called the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative. Mike McConnell, director of the CIA, has previously noted that it’s not enough to respond to foreign and domestic cyber intruders after the fact— the government needs to prevent them from happening.

And how would the CIA do this? Through public-private partnerships and "consultation with the U.S. information technology industry" (hello, lucrative government contracts!). Both Obama and McCain have vaguely spoken about cybersecurity so perhaps this CIA plan, whatever it exactly is, has legs beyond the Bush administration.-MB

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