Three of the FBI’s top cybersecurity officials are retiring as the country is reaching an “unprecedented” era of global hacking threats, according to a Thursday Wall Street Journal report.
Scott Smith, assistant FBI director who heads the cyber division, will leave this month for the private sector. His deputy, Howard Marshall, left recently for Accenture, a consulting firm. Both of them were supervised by David Resch, executive assistant director of the FBI’s criminal, cyber, response and services branch, who is also retiring.
In addition to those three, per the Wall Street Journal, Carl Ghattas, executive assistant director of the FBI’s national security branch, is also leaving and Jeffrey Tricoli, a senior FBI cyber agent who spearheaded a task force investigating the Russian election tampering, left recently.
A number of different factors have reportedly been associated with the turnover, including big pensions, low morale from constant Trump administration attacks and lucrative private sector jobs, especially in tech and cyber fields.
What could possibly go wrong? I’m sure Vlad has some suggestions for replacements.
This is really, really, really bad.
“Can I get work visas to hire Russian cyber experts? My buddy Vlad vouches for them.”
JFC. Trump is stomping through our government, destroying each department in his own special way. Isn’t there anyone left in the GOP who loves our nation more than they love the memory of what their political party used to represent? It sure as hell doesn’t represent anything to be proud of now. Wake up, people!! Wake up GOPers!!
Well, I figure that those people can do more about potential hacking outside of the FBI than in it right now.