Admiral Rogers

Separating NSA and CYBERCOM? Be Careful When Reading the GAO Report

Robert Chesney Mon, Aug 7, 2017, 1:01 PM

The Government Accountability Office last week published a report that, among other things, weighs in on the pros and cons of the NSA/CYBERCOM “dual-hat” system (pursuant to which the director of the NSA/CSS and commander of CYBERCOM are the same person). The report deserves attention but also some criticism and context. Here’s a bit of all three.

1. What is the “dual-hat” issue?

CYBERCOM

Should NSA and CYBERCOM Split? The Legal and Policy Hurdles as They Developed Over the Past Year

Robert Chesney Mon, Jul 24, 2017, 2:36 PM

In light of Michael Sulmeyer’s excellent recent piece on splitting NSA and CYBERCOM, which ran at War on the Rocks last week, I want to pull together some of the key legal and policy developments of the past year in a single narrative. My aim is to put them in context with each other in a way that will provide useful background for those new to this issue, while also putting a spotlight on the deconfliction-of-equities issue that the split proposal raises.

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Separating NSA and CYBERCOM? Be Careful When Reading the GAO Report

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Should NSA and CYBERCOM Split? The Legal and Policy Hurdles as They Developed Over the Past Year

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