So on one hand they keep drumming up the fear mongering about other countries attacking us through "cyberspace" and that they need "these bills" to stop that, when in fact the bills, and the bigger budgets, are all about US attacking others, and basically committing acts of war against them (their words, not mine).
If the US is really afraid of "cyber-threats", then they really need to ramp up the defense at home, not offense, and keep as much of the critical infrastructure off the Internet as possible.
Oh, and these are a couple of funny posts about the politicians' abuse of the word "cyber":
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120614/01590919314/cyberp...
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120615/03214619333/politi...
(Stockpiling hacks and crypto nastiness is obviously a good idea, doing something about China's cyber-espionage makes sense, and increasingly sophisticated and well-funded hacking is probably unavoidable; but TTBOMK, the US has been the first to directly attack targets of major military significance, both in Iraq and in Iran.)
I'd like to see your sources. I think you might be confusing bills like SOPA and CISPA as actual cyber bills. Most of the actual cyber bills I've read are for things like the US being able to lock down the security of the power grid b/c NSA really is that much better at it than your average sysadmin.
It also makes for good record keeping by "interviewing" talent.
