In addition, the NSC's Clarke (who, it must be acknowledged, during his time as its counterterrorism chief - in his words - "failed" to discern and address adequately the menace of WMDs in the form of hijacked planes) was laudably beavering away at another grave danger: the possibility of cyber-strikes aimed at the computers that enable America's critical infrastructure.

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