The run of trouble in keeping someone in the U.S. cybersecurity czar spot continues, with acting coordinator Melissa Hathaway announcing her resignation this week. The Wall Street Journal's Siobhan Gorman has the story. President Obama had attempted to staunch the bleeding of prestige and power away from the post by announcing a comprehensive overhaul of U.S. cybersecurity policy this spring. That plan moved the cybersecurity coordinator post into the inner rings of the White House, a partial fulfillment of Obama's campaign pledge to "appoint a National Cyber Advisor who will report directly to me." But Hathaway, Gorman reports, ran into conflict with Larry Summers' National Economic Council for, among other things, recommending that private network operators be regulated to ensure they're protecting their assets properly.

They're not bad. Obama released a 76-page "Cyberspace Policy Review" report Friday, the result of a 60-day process of consultation. And as an opening volley, advocates, activists, and lawmakers are judging it a solid shot. The Washington Post's Ellen Nakashima, for example, quotes one cybersecurity advocate calling the plan "pretty good." Similarly, NextGov's Guatham Nagesh finds praise for the review at AT&T and the computer security think tank the SANS Institute. And then there's the positive first reaction of both Republicans and Democrats on the Hill; CQ's Daniel Fowler has Olympia Snowe (R-ME) and Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) coming together to "applaud President Obama for highlighting the extraordinarily serious issue of cybersecurity."

You'll find one of the major reasons why folks are happy with the review in the inevitable White House Films movie version of the report's release...

At 10:55 ET this morning, President Obama is slated to detail his new vision for how the U.S. federal government will tackle the challenge of cybersecurity in the days ahead. The East Room event will be broadcast live at whitehouse.gov/live. Now, there's much internal bureaucratic wrangling surrounding today's announcement. But the president will likely leave much on that front unsaid, if he touches on it at all. So here's your boiled-down yet acronym-heavy backgrounder on what we'll be hearing from Obama today...

The United States government is acting like the befuddled Soviets in Dr. Strangelove, says a new report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies -- keeping its cybersecurity strategy quiet, thereby kicking the legs out from any deterrent value it might have. No real opinions yet from this corner on CSIS's new 90-page "Security Cyberspace for the 44th Presidency" report, but given the think tank's DC pedigree, it's likely being considered by its intended target, the incoming Obama administration.