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Dat contaminated the data base with message logs they had no authority to collect. i want to make sure i understand and our viewers understand, this was a tech problem they didnt fix rather than a philosophical or national security decision that we dont need this anymore? >> well, i think its kind of both. it turns out to be extremely hard to make this thing work. it looks like it was the problem is more on the telecom side than on the nsa side. the companies are sending more information and the...

Space, youre going to go over to the department of justice to try and make sure that theres no political motivations and interference. and same thing on the nsa side, youre going to have lawyers get involved and make sure the right things are there. what i would say is that if there was someone -- and we dont even know who that someone is -- that was potentially targeting a trump administration campaign official for influence purposes, it would be the national security advisors job to try and ge...

Recruitment and retention of cyber warriors and what challenges do you foresee in the future and what recommendations do you have to address them? because obviously we are competing with some of the most dynamic, innovative companies in the world, but we need them to be our cyber defense and our cyber warriors. >> so knock on wood, in the military aspect, we are exceeding both our recruiting and retention expectation. i worry about how long can we sustain that over time in the current model. my ...

Highly technical, high end skill sets that we badly need in the government, in the intelligence community, that it would be helpful to have more latitude on compensation. >> i would agree, both of these individuals, in the last 24 hours, using my authority as director of the nsa, im going to authorize the following increased compensations for the high end cyber part of our workforce because im watching -- >> of course. and its not just compensation that attracts people to what were doing in our ...

Challenges do you foresee in the future and what recommendations do you have to address them? because obviously we are competing with some of the most dynamic, innovative companies in the world, but we need them to be our cyber defense and our cyber warriors. >> knock on wood, in the military aspect, we are exceeding both our recruiting and retention expectations. i worry about how long can we sustain that over time in the current model. my immediate concern is a little less on the uniform side,...