They say it’s highly unusual that Trump gave the DOD control, and NOT the White House.
The source basically says allowing the DOD to make decisions regarding cyber attacks and not go through the White House is usually only done if you’re in combat.
Sound like something a wartime President would do then, right?
“One of the sources briefed on the administration’s plans to review NSPM-13 said that White House officials want to “regularize cyber operations.”
The source described the Trump administration’s delegation of broad cyber authorities to the Defense Department as highly unusual.
“No other kind of weapon system [or] attack system do we do that so it’s unprecedented,” the source said of the Trump decision to allow DOD to launch cyber-operations without White House approval. “If you’re not in combat, the commander is supposed to check in with White House and the president.
That’s how we’ve done it before. That’s how we usually do it … The White House should normally have control. That’s how it works. That’s how it works in most other countries.”