Top Secret

Report: Obama Ordered Cyber-Attack List

Tells officials to draw up possible targets overseas.

President Obama allegedly ordered security and intelligence officials to create a list of overseas targets for U.S. cyberattacks, according to The Guardian, which obtained a top-secret policy directive sent in 2012. Along with the selection of targets, the order further explains the effectiveness of such strategies, saying that they “can offer unique and unconventional capabilities to advance U.S. 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.” The order does, however, include an instruction that any attack must comply with the law.