Need for clearer cyberwar offensive policies

By early 2008, top U.S. military officials had become convinced that extremists planning attacks on American forces in Iraq were making use of a Web site set up by the Saudi government and the CIA to uncover terrorist plots in the kingdom.

Elite U.S. military computer specialists, over the objections of the CIA, mounted a cyberattack that dismantled the online forum.  That is when the lawyers and politicians got involved, READ MORE