New York Times led with this yesterday:Broad Powers Seen for...

New York Times led with this yesterday:

Broad Powers Seen for Obama in Cyberstrikes

“One senior American official said that officials quickly determined that the cyberweapons were so powerful that — like nuclear weapons — they should be unleashed only on the direct orders of the commander in chief.” 

We covered the rhetorical escalation of cyberwarfare on Fault Lines two years ago (see above). It’s a prescient episode written and produced by my friend and colleague Andrea Schmidt at @whatescapes.