Lawmakers Not Briefed About Creation of Obama’s New $35 Million Cyber Agency

The National Journal reports:

House lawmakers were not briefed on the creation of a new $35 million federal agency intended to bolster the nation's cyberdefenses, a GOP congressional staffer told National Journal.

The new Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center announced publicly Tuesday is designed to better coordinate digital intelligence about potential cyber threats among various federal agencies, such as the FBI and National Security Agency.

But lawmakers were not told the new agency was being created at all--and at least some staffers learned of its existence by reading the news this morning.

"We were not informed about this," the congressional Republican close to the intelligence community said. "I believe [the news] is how everyone else found it … We know about as much as you do."

The Strongman Barack Obama makes his own law.