White House eliminates top cyber adviser post

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Richard Forno <rforno () infowarrior org>
> Date: May 15, 2018 at 3:53:56 PM EDT
> To: Infowarrior List <infowarrior () attrition org>
> Cc: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
> Subject: White House eliminates top cyber adviser post
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> White House eliminates top cyber adviser post
>
> By ERIC GELLER
>
> 05/15/2018 03:07 PM EDT
>
> https://www.politico.com/amp/story/2018/05/15/white-house-eliminates-cyber-adviser-post-542916
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> The Trump administration has eliminated the White House’s top cyber policy role, jettisoning a key position created 
> during the Obama presidency to harmonize the government's overall approach to cybersecurity policy and digital 
> warfare.
>
> POLITICO first reported last week that John Bolton, President Donald Trump's new national security adviser, was 
> maneuvering to cut the cyber coordinator role, in a move that many experts and former government officials criticized 
> as a major step backward for federal cybersecurity policy.
>
> According to an email sent to National Security Council staffers Tuesday, the decision is part of an effort to 
> “streamline authority” for the senior directors who lead most NSC teams. “The role of cyber coordinator will end,” 
> Christine Samuelian, an aide to Bolton, wrote in the email to NSC employees, which POLITICO obtained from a former 
> U.S. official.
>
> The NSC’s cyber team has two senior directors, Samuelian wrote, and thus “cyber coordination is already a core 
> capability.”
>
> Rob Joyce, Trump’s first coordinator who came from the NSA, left the White House on Friday and will return to Fort 
> Meade. Cyber policy experts, lawmakers and former officials had urged Trump to replace Joyce and not to abolish the 
> position.
>
> “I don’t see how getting rid of the top cyber official in the White House does anything to make our country safer 
> from cyber threats,” Senate Intelligence ranking member Mark Warner (D-Va.) tweeted Tuesday.
>
> In her email, Samuelian said that “eliminating another layer of bureaucracy delivers greater ‘decision, activity, 
> secrecy and despatch,’” quoting Alexander Hamilton in Federalist No. 70.
>
> The cyber coordinator led a team of directors and senior directors who worked with agencies to develop a unified 
> strategy for issues like election security and digital deterrence. The coordinator also represented the 
> administration in meetings with foreign partners and at conferences and other public events.
>
> The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.



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