NSA cutting staff since Snowden’s disclosures

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By Joe Davidson, Tuesday, August 13, 4:36 PM

Edward Snowden fired a thunderbolt through top intelligence officials, and now he’s sending a jolt through his former colleagues on the job.

Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor whose revelations about massive government surveillance programs rocked the Obama administration, is at least partially responsible for the timing of a significant reduction in part of the agency’s workforce.

Army Gen. Keith B. Alexander, the NSA’s director, told a cybersecurity conference at Fordham University in New York last week that almost the entire crew of 1,000 systems administrators at the agency is being cut.

“What we’re in the process of doing — not fast enough — is reducing our system administrators by about 90 percent,” he said in remarks reported by Reuters.

Many of those systems administrators are contractors, as Snowden was before he fled the United States and Booz Allen Hamilton fired him. Alexander wants to move more of the operation away from on-site computer servers to the online “cloud.”

“We’ve put people in the loop of transferring data, securing networks and doing things that machines are probably better at doing,” Alexander said.

full: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/federal_government/nsa-cutting-staff-since-snowdens-disclosures/2013/08/13/fec8a9ac-040d-11e3-88d6-d5795fab4637_singlePage.html

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1. all part of snowden's evil plot to make obama look bad..

now there will be an uptick in unemployment claims thanks to comrade Stalinden.