In a previous position that Bishop held from May 2010 to April 2012, Bishop had access to "top secret" information on the command's efforts to defend against a ballistic missile attack from North Korea, Crutchfield said.
Within months after taking office, President Obama established an executive-branch cybersecurity coordinator and a new Cyber Command colocated with the super-secret National Security Agency at Fort Meade, MD.
They suspect that even if the court finds the pair guilty, implying that the Libyan secret service ordered the attack, no one will seek to trace the order along the chain of command.