In today’s Daily Comment, Steve Coll looks at the militarization of cyberspace, and at the potential rewards-and risks-of cyberwar: http://nyr.kr/LeLAEo

In today’s Daily Comment, Amy Davidson asks “what’s wrong with politicizing the death of Osama bin Laden?”  She writes,

The list of questions that we have had to confront practically, not just abstractly, reads like a catechism of citizenship.  When should we go to war? What are the limits of habeas corpus? What are our priorities— financial, moral, military— as a nation?  What are the rights of citizens, and of strangers?  What do Congress, the Court, and the President each get to decide?  How much can we know about what they do?  Is torture worth it?  What are my rights?  Should we sneak into South Asian countries and assassinate our enemies in the middle of the night?  These are all matters for politics. And, again, in the past decade there haven’t been too many questions raised about them; there were again, too few.  And too often the critics were told to just be quiet and keep national security out of politics.

Click-through to read Davidson’s entire post.

LIVE CHAT: Ask Hendrik Hertzberg your questions about the The Washington Post’s “Top Secret America” series and the new national-security industry today at 3 P.M. E.T., or leave a question now.

From Hertzberg’s Comment on the series:

“It is an exposé about a secret world, but it exposes no secrets…Just as its subject is a new kind of bureaucratic enterprise, ‘Top Secret America’ is a new kind of journalistic enterprise, pairing expert reporting of the traditional shoe-leather variety with the information-gathering power of the Internet.”