I agree with you. A lot of people were listening to everything we did and everything we worked on. It's okay, because it's a double-edged sword. You can actually work this to your advantage if need be. We have to be mindful of that.
More importantly, also in the case of Libya, is that everything was done using iPhones, iPads, YouTube, Skype, e-mail, and Facebook. Your reconnaissance party would go with their iPhones and take pictures, and then report to their boss in Benghazi on Skype and post the video on YouTube. Facebook could provide directions to what the intent of the NTC was.
We need to get into this business as well. I had three people looking at this, Arabic speakers, and it was not enough because of the pool of information.
The problem is that we get into legal action as well, because you can disseminate information and share it. The problem in the cyber-world is that there are no borders, or, as we know, it's very difficult to have them. The server that may be providing you the service may well be outside that geographical area. From a military perspective, lines on the map matter. The problem, and you're an engineer, is that when you go in the cyber-world, there are no lines on the map; there's only the globe. How do we connect that part? We can act militarily, or in a cyber way, both offensively and defensively. But how do you control that to make sure that you don't spread the mission outside the realm in which you're supposed to operate without bringing somebody you don't want into the realm?
The last point is that I did not have the legal authority to conduct any of this stuff, and therefore we did not. We gathered the information we could. You gather it from everybody. But action we could not do, because I was not cleared to do this.
Yet I will opine, sir, that we need to look into that. You may be able to stop an action in cyberspace without any kinetic action. It makes the reconstruction Madame mentioned earlier much faster. We can make the influence much faster, and we can do it without putting anybody in jeopardy. It's an area we need to continue. But we also need time to understand how we deal with that part, sir. It's a very good question for which I can only offer some thoughts but no solution at this time.