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The heads of the Pentagon and the nations intelligence community have recommended to President Obama that the director of the National Security Agency, Adm. Michael S. Rogers, be removed.
The recommendation, delivered to the White House last month, was made by Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter and Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr., according to several U.S. officials familiar with the matter.
Action has been delayed, some administration officials said, because relieving Rogers of his duties is tied to another controversial recommendation: to create separate chains of command at the NSA and the militarys cyberwarfare unit, a recommendation by Clapper and Carter that has been stalled because of other issues.
The news comes as Rogers is being considered by President-Elect Donald Trump to be his nominee for DNI, replacing Clapper as the official who oversees all 17 U.S. intelligence agencies. In a move apparently unprecedented for a military officer, Rogers, without notifying superiors, traveled to New York to meet with Trump on Thursday at Trump Tower. That caused consternation at senior levels of the administration, according to the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal personnel matters.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/pentagon-and-intelligence-community-chiefs-have-urged-obama-to-remove-the-head-of-the-nsa/2016/11/19/44de6ea6-adff-11e6-977a-1030f822fc35_story.html
cilla4progress
(24,736 posts)Intelligence apparatus. Wow.
Stinky The Clown
(67,800 posts).... big trouble may well be in the offing. Meanwhile Trump appears to be encouraging it. I hope he pisses off enough constituencies to be his undoing.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)Richard Engel said on NBC a couple days ago that some generals were reviewing the Constitution to see what their options are if they need to override Trump.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)Ilsa
(61,695 posts)within the NSA or CIA, and not be under military. Would keeping it under nsa prevent trump from having as much direct influence?
If you haven't seen Zero Days on Showtime, it's worth watching. My directv is letting me have showtime for a week, I guess, as a preview. Zero Days was the best documentary I saw. Watched it twice. It's about the development of Stuxnet, how Israel turned it loose, and the repercussions between US and Iran.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)MattP
(3,304 posts)Not that it isn't now
marybourg
(12,631 posts)of the presidency will be? And when? We could have a pool.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)Supposedly, the US has a warfare program called Nitro zeus, which could infiltrate some of the most essential infrastructure we need on a daily basis, like power, water, etc.
I think Joe Biden needs to work on a world-powers treaty to get all countries on board with stopping cyberwarfare.
malaise
(269,008 posts)This would be a classic cyber coup
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)I'd like to see someone like Biden and Kerry work on this, though. We're going to need a treaty for cyber as much as we needed one for nuclear.
malaise
(269,008 posts)http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028291593
Remember the right wing Supreme Court made this possible with Citizens' United.
wordpix
(18,652 posts)Ivanka, the first female president
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)Trump only allows loyalists.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)Matthew Yglesias ?@mattyglesias 1h1 hour ago Washington, DC
Do I have this right? The NSA chief was going to be fired, but Russian hackers helped Trump win the election so now he's getting promoted?
Matthew Yglesias ?@mattyglesias 1h1 hour ago Washington, DC
I don't want to be ~that guy~ but it's a little fishy eh?
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias
malaise
(269,008 posts)That would be more frightening