Majia here: And of course the rules will be "highly classified":
Broad
Powers Seen for Obama in Cyberstrikes. Published:
February 3, 2013 The New York Times By DAVID E.
SANGER and THOM SHANKER
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/04/us/broad-powers-seen-for-obama-in-cyberstrikes.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130204&_r=0
[Excerpted]A secret legal review
on the use of America’s growing arsenal of cyberweapons has concluded that President
Obama has the broad power to order a pre-emptive strike if the
United States detects credible evidence of a major digital attack looming from
abroad, according to officials involved in the review...
...New policies will also govern how the intelligence
agencies can carry out searches of faraway computer networks for signs of
potential attacks on the United States and, if the president approves, attack
adversaries by injecting them with destructive code — even if there is no
declared war.
The rules will be highly classified,
just as those governing drone strikes have been closely held. John O.
Brennan, Mr. Obama’s chief counterterrorism adviser and his nominee to
run the Central Intelligence Agency, played a central role in
developing the administration’s
policies regarding both drones and cyberwarfare,
the two newest and most politically sensitive weapons in the American arsenal.....
...Mr.
Obama is known to have approved the use of cyberweapons only once, early in his
presidency, when he ordered an
escalating series of cyberattacks against Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities.
The operation was code-named Olympic Games...
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