White House Cyber Security Chief: NSA Leaker Snowden Damage Will Be Felt for Decades

Photo: Michael Daniel is a Special Assistant to the President and the Cybersecurity Coordinator.

White House Cyber Chief Says Snowden Damage Will Be Felt for Decades -- Washington Free Beacon

Obama opposes foreign government control of Internet, Michael Daniel says.

Damage to U.S. national security caused by NSA contractor Edward Snowden will take decades to repair, the White House official in charge of cyber security said Friday.

“Make no mistake: We are going to be dealing with the fallout from that for all of your careers, and the impact that that has had on our national security will reverberate for decades,” Michael Daniel, special assistant to the president for cyber security, told Naval Academy midshipmen.

Daniel, in a speech to the academy’s Center for Cyber Security Studies, also said the Obama administration has adopted a passive approach to offensive and retaliatory cyber attacks against nation states and criminal hackers caught attacking U.S. networks. Cyber attacks are a tool of last resort after diplomacy and law enforcement means are tried, he said.

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My Comment: This Special Assistant has the ear of the President .... and provides a very good indication on President Obama's thinking on the NSA scandal.