[Perdogg]

I saw that movie and it did not end very well.

[Seizethecarp]

I expect that secret executive orders authorize drone strikes within the US to terminate any terrorist or nation-state decapitation cyber attack launched from within the US. The potential cyber attack danger could easily be rationalized as being so “imminent” as to require immediate armed drone intervention directing “observable kinetic effects globally,” which includes within the US, logic would dictate.

[PieterCasparzen]

New world order will not attack itself.

[Uncle Miltie]

Because what we always need in government is a whole new organization that lives forever, grows and never shrinks, and becomes sclerotic.

[ryan71]

“However, the new report says that the U.S. must go further to “ensure the President has options beyond a nuclear-only response to a catastrophic cyber-attack.””

Especially if that “attack” were to come from an American citizen on American soil? I suppose setting aside a “special” force to do this would be hand-picked and more “trainable” by the president and more discrete?