Amendment to NDAA Would Give Military Clandestine Operation Authority in Cyberspaceselfnews Post The prospect of clandestine military actions online against whichever targets any one of the military agencies deems appropriate will officially complete the goal of full spectrum dominance. The current text of the NDAA reads as follows: (a) AFFIRMATION.Congress affirms that the Secretary of Defense is authorized to conduct military activities in cyberspace. (b) AUTHORITY DESCRIBED.The authority referred to in subsection (a) includes the authority to carry out a clandestine operation in cyberspace (2) to defend against a cyber attack against an asset of the Department of Defense. Masnick rightly points to the key word clandestine within the above text. This is nothing short of an open admission that the military is taking full control over both the supposed safety of the infrastructure as well as manipulation of that infrastructure and the data that moves across it. In July of last year, the Pentagon announced their strategy to treat cyberspace as an operational domain in their Department of Defense Strategy for Operating in Cyberspace (PDF) where they claim that Hackers and foreign governments are increasingly able to launch sophisticated intrusions into the networks and systems that control critical civilian infrastructure. Perhaps worst of all is that this amendment is an open handover of power by Congress to let the Defense Department do whatever it wishes with minimal or no oversight, capitulating to the directives DoD has already given to Congress regarding war in the real world. A response by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta in June of last year to a question by Sen. McCain made clear his view thatBarack Obama should work jointly with DoDwithin a military dictatorship framework, with a philosophy of extralegal measures taken by the president when needed by the military: Congress would seem to agree wholeheartedly with this assessment by amending Section 954 of the National Defense Authorization Act and ushering into cyberspace an even wider philosophy of military supremacy over what used to be a Constitutional Republic. Read other articles by selfnews Post here. 