John Kerry

I think ALL of us would feel lost with any disruption of the internet. In fact, in the Mt Ida talk Kerry speaks of that, but this goes beyond taking down the internet itself or corrupting sites - it goes to taking down infrastructure that has connections to the internet for any reason.

I have mixed feelings about the article, but agree that the NYT was very reasonable in what they printed and how they handled it. From their comment, they showed the article to the government, took out some information and were given a green light to print. The Republican attacks - that it should not have been released and was to make Obama look good are very dangerous and I trust completely not true.

Kerry was in this same position on the Wikileaks and he has always been very against leaks - although he readily accepts that the Pentagon Papers SHOULD have been published because they showed the government was lying. (Cynically, I could say that in that instance he was outside the government he is now in) I think, like you, I want to know what our government is doing -- at least after they did it. Here, my thought is that if PUBLIC acknowledgment that we did have a cyber attack on Iran makes things more difficult (if that is even possible) than when it was merely assumed, than I understand Kerry's reluctance. As to the WH, I wonder if the difference is not that they are in an awkward place - and they have asked Kerry to make that point - rather than him being at variance with the WH, though his position is not inconsistent with previous Kerry positions.