NSA's Best Are 'Leaving In Big Numbers,' Insiders Say (cyberscoop.com)

schwit1 quotes CyberScoop: Low morale at the National Security Agency is causing some of the agency's most talented people to leave in favor of private sector jobs, former NSA Director Keith Alexander told a room full of journalism students, professors and cybersecurity executives Tuesday. The retired general and other insiders say a combination of economic and social factors including negative press coverage -- have played a part... "I am honestly surprised that some of these people in cyber companies make up to seven figures. That's five times what the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff makes. Right? And these are people that are 32 years old. Do the math. [The NSA] has great competition," he said.

The rate at which these cyber-tacticians are exiting public service has increased over the last several years and has gotten considerably worse over the last 12 months, multiple former NSA officials and D.C. area-based cybersecurity employers have told CyberScoop in recent weeks... In large part, Alexander blamed the press for propagating an image of the NSA that causes people to believe they are being spied on at all times by the U.S. government regardless of their independent actions.
"What really bothers me is that the people of NSA, these folks who take paltry government salaries to protect this nation, are made to look like they are doing something wrong," the former NSA Director added. "They are doing exactly what our nation has asked them to do to protect us. They are the heroes."

Comments

Re:No Suprise

[Kohath]

Maybe he will start with people who did not care when the Obama Administration used the IRS to "get back at people".

Re:Cue the hipocrisy...

[ClickOnThis]

"The Russian" didn't make people vote for Trump. It was 8 years of Obama and the threat of 4 more years of his policies that caused reactionary voting patterns. Clinton in Merkel's pocket, aligned with globalist-Euro interests and big money, is bad for Russia. Trump is only looking out for the USA, he's not beholden to Euro masters or Wall Street, so he's the logical choice for Americans.

It's incidental that Russia favored a nationalistic US president.

You left out the part where Trump had a far more difficult relationship with the truth than Clinton. And he kept calling the media -- the only independent group with the resources to fact-check him -- he kept calling them "corrupt" and "scum of the earth." Get ready for four years of this. Trump will keep dissing the media, getting to his "people" first via Twitter, and doing everything he can with the powers of the Oval Office to control what is perceived as the truth.

As for Russia liking Trump, they hated Clinton more. That was hardly a secret.

And who is Trump beholden to? Well, we don't know. Because he didn't release his taxes.

Can you say Oligarchy? I knew you could.

[fyngyrz]

It's not a circle. It's a waveform. Any distance, any additional number of degrees out from the origin, is possible.

We are certainly a long way from the constitution now. The worst flaw in it -- a day-1 flaw -- is that is was crafted without any provision for punishment for legislators who violate it. The largest injury ever done to it was the supreme court arrogating the power of amendment in Marbury vs. Madison, and that, too, was quite a while ago. That, combined with the enormously toxic "well, it doesn't mean what it says..." attitude... those three factors outright bought us the oligarchy we have today.

At this point it looks like Trump will probably win the EC vote, at which point we will have the cherry on top of our Sundae of Shite: a misogynist, xenophobic, sexist, rude, compulsive, racist, poorly spoken, selfish, scientifically illiterate, and frankly, not too bright president.

It's popcorn time, folks.