Is this threat being ignored?

The mass murder of innocent people in Oslo brings the threat of individual terrorists back onto the front pages. But David Sirota writes here of "a more systemic threat of terrorists or foreign governments exploiting our economy's penchant for job-offshoring. How? By using our corresponding reliance on imports to stitch security-compromising technology into our society's central IT nervous system."

As the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission reported, they could mean "kill switches" secretly implanted in Pentagon systems that control our arsenal. Or they could mean new back doors that allow Chinese military hackers to again breach Defense Department computer networks, as they did in 2007.

Sirota is a lefty, so I don't go all the way down the road with his conclusions, but I am glad he is writing about this subject, because it is a threat to our national security.