The meeting comes the same day many in Washington, including the Treasury Department, signaled there would be no rescue of Lehman involving government money.

FORBES: What To Do With Lehman?

Finally, the SEC pledged to cooperate with appropriate U.S. governmental agencies, including the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), to help ensure enforcement of existing U.S. sanctions.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

Thus, when a series of fairly unsophisticated attacks crashed the websites of 27 government agencies including those of the Treasury Department, Secret Service and Transportation Department during last year's July Fourth weekend, it was panic time.

WSJ: Battling the Cyber Warmongers