Unintentional, scary but possibly true comedy from running this through decyber:

The White House is now developing an executive order that would not go so far, but it still wants more powerful laws.

Even inside the administration, Hayden said, the Defense Department has defined the internet as a warfare domain that it must “dominate,” while the Department of Homeland Security has publicly disagreed.

A core problem is that the same communications networks are used both for military operations and civilian transactions, which are protected from unreasonable searches.

While most Americans would welcome a local police officer shining a light at a shrub in their yard after seeing something suspicious, almost no one would feel the same way about questionable Internet activity.

The National Security Agency has the most advanced capabilities for illegal hacking and defense in the world, Hayden said.

“It is awesome,” he said. “But nobody there has the authorization to defend you,” because the NSA is generally barred from domestic eavesdropping.

As governments and companies recognize that they have all been hacked and focus more on limiting the damage from breaches, Hayden called for more extensive debate from civilians on how the United States should treat the Internet.

“You and I have not yet given our government guidance about what we want it to do,” he said.

My italics… think about what they mean – you are defenceless because we are barred from domestic eavesdropping; I wonder what their point could be?

It makes scary but honest reading.