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Ex-NSA Director Keith Alexander's Investments In Tech Firms: "No Conflict"

Posted by timothy on from the picking-winners dept.

Presto Vivace (882157) writes "No conflicts appear to exist" among Keith Alexander's investments, the NSA said. "New financial disclosure documents released this month by the National Security Agency (NSA) show that Keith Alexander, who served as its director from August 2005 until March 2014, had thousands of dollars of investments during his tenure in a handful of technology firms." Don't worry, the NSA assures us that there was no conflict of interest.

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  1. IronNet Cybersecurity is the ethics issue by demachina · · Score: 5, Informative

    Most of the ethics questions around Alexander involve his company IronNet Cybersecurity. He founded it when he retired. He's charging big banks $1,000,000 a month to protect them in cyberspace, and its not exactly clear what he has to offer to justify the price tag, other than classified insider knowledge of cyber threats from his NSA years, he probably shouldn't be selling to the highest bidder.

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  2. Re:Maybe by Beeftopia · · Score: 4, Informative

    They benefit in at least three ways:

    1) Direct contributions.

    2) The Revolving Door

    3) Trading on insider information.

    There are many other ways I'm sure, smaller and more subtle. But these are the big ones AFAIK.