{"id":5035,"date":"2013-06-10T10:38:16","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T10:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=5035"},"modified":"2013-06-10T10:38:16","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T10:38:16","slug":"obama-orders-overseas-target-list-for-cyber-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=5035","title":{"rendered":"Obama orders overseas target list for cyber-attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/obamaangry.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5036\" title=\"obamaangry\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/obamaangry-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/obamaangry-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/obamaangry-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/obamaangry.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>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.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">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) \u201ccan 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\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It says the government will \u201cidentify potential targets of national importance where OCEO can offer a favorable balance of effectiveness and risk as compared with other instruments of national power\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The directive also contemplates the possible use of cyber actions inside the US, though it specifies that no such domestic operations can be conducted without the prior order of the president, except in cases of emergency. -The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. &nbsp; The 18-page Presidential Policy Directive 20, issued in October last year but never published, states that what it calls Offensive Cyber &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=5035\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Obama orders overseas target list for cyber-attacks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[90,2995,2993,2994],"class_list":["post-5035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","tag-obama","tag-offensive-cyber-effects-operations-oceo","tag-overseas-targets-for-us-cyber-attacks","tag-presidential-policy-directive-20"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/obamaangry.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5035"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5038,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5035\/revisions\/5038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}