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Obama orders US to draw up overseas target list for cyber-attacks
The Guardian ^ | Friday 7 June 2013 15.06 EDT | Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill

Posted on 06/07/2013 5:02:11 PM PDT by Calamari

Barack Obama has ordered his senior national security and intelligence officials to draw up a list of potential overseas targets for US cyber-attacks, a top secret presidential directive obtained by the Guardian reveals.

The 18-page Presidential Policy Directive 20, issued in October last year but never published, states that what it calls Offensive Cyber Effects Operations (OCEO) "can offer unique and unconventional capabilities to advance US national objectives around the world with little or no warning to the adversary or target and with potential effects ranging from subtle to severely damaging".

It says the government will "identify potential targets of national.....

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TOPICS: War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 0bamariggingamerica; cybersecurity; duplicate; notbreakingnews; nsa; obama; tyranny
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To: Girlene

If it is an emergency; why not?


21 posted on 06/07/2013 7:28:18 PM PDT by Calamari (Pass enough laws and everyone is guilty of something.)
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To: Calamari

There are also plans for DOMESTIC attacks. WTH? Any one of these scandals would have been enough to sink a GOP POTUS. Obama is growing scandals like dandelions.


22 posted on 06/07/2013 9:15:03 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Strategerist

I would be willing to donate to his legal fund.


23 posted on 06/07/2013 9:16:06 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Calamari
target
24 posted on 06/08/2013 4:00:00 AM PDT by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro can't pass E-verify)
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YOU CAN TRUST ME

WOULD I LIE TO YOU?




25 posted on 06/08/2013 4:14:21 AM PDT by devolve
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To: Calamari

There he goes, giving out orders again.

Of course he gave NO orders to the NSA, IRS, EPA, DOJ, DHS, etc,etc,etc..


26 posted on 06/08/2013 5:25:35 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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