Former NSA chief: NSA and US Cyber Command are now ‘indistinguishable’
October 23, 2013
A Q&A with Gen. Michael Hayden, the former head of the National Security Agency and Central Intelligence Agency.
He’s concerned about government overreach by the Internal Revenue Service and the Justice Department. But, he said, the mounting scrutiny simply makes it harder for the NSA to explain why its surveillance activity is above board. Gen Hayden also believes the NSA and U.S. Cyber Command's functions to be so similar as to overlap completely; eventually, it will no longer be feasible to appoint one person to manage both agencies at the same time.
Former NSA chief: NSA and US Cyber Command are now ‘indistinguishable’