Another take on the pending cybersecurity bill

Read the entire article at Wired.com:

So why write the bill if it doesn’t give the president any more authority? I’ve heard two reasonable theories. Marc Ambinder at the Atlantic suggests that the goal may be to give power to the president on these issues at the expense of the less-open NSA and DOD. Under that theory, the bill is actually designed to keep potential channels of dissent in a crisis more open to the public, rather than less.

The second theory is that it’s just a senate jurisdictional battle.

Previously here.