President Obama said for the first time that the United States has a national security interest to protect the nation’s economic goods against terrorists, criminals and natural disasters everywhere in the world, the Associated Press reported Wednesday.
The new policy, being unveiled Wednesday by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano at the Word Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, is called the “National Strategy for Global Supply Chain Security,” AP said, citing White House documents.
“The global supply chain provides the food, medicine, energy and products that support our way of life,” the document said.
“We have seen that disruptions to supply chains caused by natural disasters . . . and from criminal and terrorist networks [that] can adversely impact global economic growth and productivity,” Obama wrote in the document.
“As a nation, we must address the challenges posed by these threats and strengthen our national and international policies accordingly,” it said.
In his State of the Union speech Tuesday night, the president said he has sent Congress legislation “that will secure our country from the growing dangers of cyber-threats.”
