2020
2018
This MacNeil/Lehrer Report piece highlights the anguish caused by gas shortages at a station in Queens, New York in 1979.
Tempers Flare In Lines for Gasoline in 1979
https://youtu.be/G7SnaMphvug
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/10/senior-cyber-official-leaves-nsc-486881
EXCLUSIVE
Senior cyber official leaves Biden's NSC
Michael Sulmeyer, a senior White House cybersecurity official, has left his position, two people familiar with the matter told POLITICO.
Corn ''Colonial''
Pop ''Pipeline ''
White House deputy national security adviser for cyber and emerging technologies Anne Neuberger, right, listens as White House homeland security adviser Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall speaks | AP Photo/Evan Vucci
By ERIC GELLER
05/10/2021 10:38 PM EDT
Michael Sulmeyer, a senior White House cybersecurity official, has left his position, two people familiar with the matter told POLITICO.
Sulmeyer, a senior director for cyber policy at the National Security Council, left his job on Monday, the people said.
An NSC spokesperson said that Sulmeyer was returning to the Pentagon, where he previously served as a senior adviser to NSA Director and U.S. Cyber Command chief Gen. Paul Nakasone, "after completing the strategic review at the NSC he came over here to do." The spokesperson did not provide details about Sulmeyer's new role at the Pentagon, and Sulmeyer himself did not respond to a request for comment.
Sulmeyer’s departure comes as the White House grapples with multiple cybersecurity crises.
The NSC has been leading the Biden administration’s response to the SolarWinds cyber espionage campaign, which exposed serious weaknesses in government computer networks.
And on Friday, it began dealing with a major cyberattack that forced the shutdown of a pipeline that supplies much of the fuel for the East Coast.
Sulmeyer’s exit also comes as the government’s top two cyber positions, national cyber director and director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, remain vacant, with President Joe Biden only recently nominating people to fill them.
It is unclear who will replace Sulmeyer in his role as co-leader of the cyber directorate. The other co-leader is Jeff Greene, a detailee from NIST who initially joined the NSC as a director for cyber policy but has recently been serving as an acting senior director alongside Sulmeyer.
The NSC’s cyber portfolio falls under Anne Neuberger, Biden’s deputy national security adviser for cyber and emerging technology.
Sulmeyer joined the NSC at the beginning of the Biden administration.
During the Obama administration, he served as thedirectorforplans andoperations for cyber policy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
FILED UNDER: NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL
https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2021/05/11/biden-is-the-new-carter-and-we-now-have-the-gas-lines-to-prove-it-n378032
Biden is the New Carter, and we Now Have the Gas Lines to Prove it
By Jennifer Oliver O'Connell | May 11, 2021 1:00 AM ET
That Maya Angelou quote comes to mind:
“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”
We had 47 years of that first-time experience with Senator and Vice President Joe Biden. We knew he had failed up throughout his political career and made more bad policy decisions than Pelosi’s had Botox injections. Yet Biden still managed to be installed as President because, “mean tweets!”, or something.
Candidate Biden tried to do a song and dance about ending energy production in the United States, but no one wanted to believe that he actually would. After President Biden’s Day One executive order killing the Keystone XL Pipeline, then others that put a moratorium on fracking and domestic gas production, I think it’s apparent that he meant what he said the first time.
It is now around Day 130 of the Biden administration, and we have had the privilege horror of seeing the result of his bad policy decisions in real-time. Gas prices have increased. Quite a lot, in fact.
After the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack this weekend, we are now seeing a full-on fuel shortage, to a degree we have not seen since… oh, 1978?
The end result of this is increased prices that you pay at the pump. IF you can even get to a pump: