Cyberthreats

BOTH THE Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the al-Qaeda assault of 9/11 took the United States by surprise. There were warnings of trouble but, as subsequent investigations showed, the intelligence was fragmentary and did not set off the proper alarms. President Harry S. Truman and Congress created the Central Intelligence Agency in 1947 out of a desire for high-quality, objective analysis and out of a determination that Pearl Harbor should never happen again.

A new cyber intelligence unit makes sense but is not enough