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Obama Pulls Cybercommand Control From NSA; Changes To Take Effect Whenever
Tech Dirt ^ | 27 December 2016 | Tim Cushing

Posted on 12/30/2016 8:31:44 AM PST by Lorianne

The NSA will have to satisfy itself with being the most powerful intelligence agency in the world. President Obama, rushing through some last-minute presidential business before handing over the title to an aspiring plutocrat, has split up the nation's cyberware command. This siloing prevents Cybercom from being run by the same military officer who oversees the NSA.

“While the dual-hat arrangement was once appropriate in order to enable a fledgling Cybercom to leverage NSA’s advanced capabilities and expertise, Cybercom has since matured” to the point where it needs its own leader, Obama said in a statement accompanying his signing of the 2017 defense authorization bill.

Basically, no one man should have all this power. This scales back the NSA's offensive involvement, leaving it to play defense for the US government -- a limitation it's never been happy with.

The offensive end of the nation's cyberwarfare will now have its own leader, which points towards an increase in offensive efforts, rather than tighter handling of the reins.

Sticking the NSA with defense doesn't make it happy, considering the wealth of offensive weapons it has at its disposal. But having a new singular focus may help it refine its pitch for a cut of some unfiltered domestic data. The NSA would rather be in on the ground floor of the information sharing forced on private companies by the recent passage of cybersecurity legislation. If it can defend the government's most sensitive networks, surely it can be trusted handling the civilian side as well?

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TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: 12333; cybercom; cyberhacking; nsa
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1 posted on 12/30/2016 8:31:44 AM PST by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne

He can pull a dingle-berry out from his a$$. That doesn’t mean what he’s doing will sustain. I expect all his little-boy tantrum reprisals will be erased soon.


2 posted on 12/30/2016 8:33:54 AM PST by Gaffer
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So, he doesn’t think the next administration should have as much power in this area as his did. He’s trying to cover something up.


3 posted on 12/30/2016 8:37:03 AM PST by circlecity
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Its cover-up.


4 posted on 12/30/2016 8:37:31 AM PST by jennychase
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To: Lorianne

Next we will see shredder van outside White Hut.


5 posted on 12/30/2016 8:38:12 AM PST by jennychase
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To: Lorianne
President Obama, rushing through some last-minute presidential business before handing over the title to an aspiring plutocrat, has split up the nation's cyberware command.

Typical jerkoff lib. That so-called aspiring plutocrat is becoming President on January 20 because he won an election not because he's the latest wealthy elite to maneuver his way into power over other wealthy elites.

6 posted on 12/30/2016 8:40:48 AM PST by Dahoser (Separation of church and state? No, we need separation of media and state.)
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To: Lorianne
How does he do that without Congress voting?

He has something they are trying to cover up and can not do with the NSA as it is.

I hope we will eventually get to see what really went on behind the scenes in intelligence during this election cycle. There has been a war waged within our government.

7 posted on 12/30/2016 8:44:34 AM PST by Lady Heron
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The Obama administration is trying to cover up a lot of things in the waning days of his administration and they are all geared to prevent Trump’s new DOJ from taking action. The only thing I can come up with is the Clinton Foundation was the money laundering operation for the globalists and it was all run from Obama’s State Department with help from the UN.

And the NSA has all the data.


8 posted on 12/30/2016 8:50:14 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Too. Much. Winning.)
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To: Lorianne

The whole justification for Homeland Security was to centralize intelligence, now we need another not her new agency to decentralize it?

Barry is a bad aeed.


9 posted on 12/30/2016 8:51:26 AM PST by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: Lorianne

Judge Napalitano has located a former NSA employee named William Binney who has gone on camera to state that WikiLeaks got the email dumps from the NSA This story matches the story of Assange and the U.K. ambassador.

I suspect that this shuffle is a cover for Obama’s attempt at retribution. There is probably some personnel redistribution which is meant to be painful.


10 posted on 12/30/2016 8:53:04 AM PST by the_Watchman
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BTW: William Binney, formerly of the NSA, says that his contacts revealed that Hillary’s server being hacked resulted in more than one overseas operative being killed. Thus, the NSA wanted to pull the plug on her candidacy.

Perhaps Comey’s late announcement of further investigation during the campaign was done either in conjunction with the NSA out of deference to their concern about Hillary or due to extortion from the NSA.


11 posted on 12/30/2016 8:57:00 AM PST by the_Watchman
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To: Lorianne

The Saboteur-in-Chief keeps making his puppet masters proud.


12 posted on 12/30/2016 9:01:41 AM PST by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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To: Lorianne

Guess the NSA wouldn’t sign off on Obama’s hacking BS.


13 posted on 12/30/2016 9:10:01 AM PST by RedWulf (Trump:Front Lines. Obama: Back Nine. Hillary:Nap T)
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To: Dahoser

I agree, far too typical. Gratuitous insult that has nothing to do with the information in the article. It seems there is no journalists who can resist.


14 posted on 12/30/2016 9:11:34 AM PST by Lorianne
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To: RedWulf

That’s what I’m thinking.


15 posted on 12/30/2016 9:11:59 AM PST by Lorianne
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This will get fixed shortly.

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16 posted on 12/30/2016 9:12:50 AM PST by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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This Most Worthless & Useless of All Residents of the Whitehouse can't vanish soon enough for me.
17 posted on 12/30/2016 9:24:17 AM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Lorianne

Upset with NSA providing information to wikileaks?


18 posted on 12/30/2016 9:26:03 AM PST by TruthWillWin (The problem with socialists is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
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To: Lorianne
"Sticking the NSA with defense doesn't make it happy, considering the wealth of offensive weapons it has at its disposal."

How does Tim Cushing know this? If he does know that NSA has one or more cyber weapons, then he has leaked classified material and should be persecuted and prosecuted. Or else he is talking through his hat and it is fake news.

19 posted on 12/30/2016 9:40:34 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: circlecity
He’s trying to cover something up

It won't work. Trump will have access to the entire file cabinet, intel, data, et al, not to mention lots of victims laying around who'll will be more than happy to talk.

20 posted on 12/30/2016 9:54:26 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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