President Obama on Tuesday named Howard Schmidt, a security veteran with high-level government and industry experience on his resume, as the White House cybersecurity coordinator.

If you're looking to bury news, make your announcement the week of Christmas. Not that I'm suggesting that's necessarily the case here, but I'm sure the administration doesn't mind that fewer voters will be reading about how the appointment comes seven months after Obama declared cybersecurity a major priority. If it was such a priority, why did it take more than half a year to fill the newly created position?