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They are trying to get away from this whole idea of using systems administrators like snowden to do a lot of these jobs. in fact, the director of the national security agency recently announced that they are accelerating plans to really move a lot of this work on to computers. >> what we're in the process of doing, not fast enough, is reducing our system administrators by about 90%. for the first reason, which was to make our networks more defensible and more secure. >> to put that in perspective, there are about 1,000 systems administrators like edward snowden. at the end of this, there may o...

They are trying to get away from this whole idea of using systems administrators like snowden to do a lot of these jobs. in fact, the director of the national security agency recently announced that they are accelerating plans to really move a lot of this work on to computers. >> what we're in the process of doing, not fast enough, is reducing our system administrators by about 90%. for the first reason, which was to make our networks more defensible and more secure. >> to put that in perspective, there are about 1,000 systems administrators like edward snowden. at the end of this, there may o...

>> i can't even believe i'm laughing, but, i'm sorry, when you put it all together. all right, to be fair, to your point, booz allen didn't decide the security clearance. that actually was left to another contractor, usis, they're under grnd jury investigation. but i guess the bigger question here is the government doing anything to wean itself off of what is frightening dependency on contractors? >> the no just wean itself off contractors, wean itself off people. they are trying to get away from this whole idea of using systems administrators like snowden to do a lot of these jobs. in fact, t...

Answer the question holding her in contempt of tcongress. i think that would be appropriate. >> the new fox news poll finds 59 percent of americans believe the irs scandal is serious. about half as many say it's a phony scandal. >> peter doocy live in washington, thanks. a dramatic step to keep people from leaking classified documents. the agency ace director announced it will rely on machines rather than people to keep that information classified. listen. >> what we are in the process of doing, not fast enough, is reducing system administrators about 90 percent. it is to make our networks m...

General keith alexander today saying they are taking this dramatic step of cutting down nearly 1,000 system administrators employed by his agency or hired as contractors to avoid the snowden-type access. 1,000 people. >> we don't know if that would help. the problem is we know so little about how snowden was able to throw this entire thing on its ear and contractors versus regular government employees with security clearances. we don't know that tossing out 1,000 employees will make a difference to prevent this from happening again. >> we don't know how many employees they have. >> we don't kn...