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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 didn't fix rather than a philosophical or national security decision that we don't need this anymore? >> well, i think it's 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 they're supposed to and that contaminates the system and has, you know, replicating effects when the...

Space, you're going to go over to the department of justice to try and make sure that there's no political motivations and interference. and same thing on the nsa side, you're 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 don't even know who that someone is -- that was potentially targeting a trump administration campaign official for influence purposes, it would be the national security advisor's job to try and get an understanding of what that is. she would be the person designed in the strategy to counter...

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 immediate concern is a little less on the uniformed side, in part because money, if money was a prim...

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, i'm going to authorize the following increased compensations for the high end cyber part of our workforce because i'm watching -- >> of course. and it's not just compensation that attracts people to what we're doing in our intelligence community, because service to the country is a very important motivation, and of co...

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, in part because if money was a primary driver for them, it wouldn't have come to us in the first pl...