NSA Director nominee wants every branch of the military to have a dedicated cyber attack force

It seems like President Obama was pretty serious about that cyber attack list he drew up last year -- his nominee candidate for NSA Director, Admiral Michael Rogers, just told the Senate that the military is building several new cyber combat units. Rogers, who is slated to both take over at the NSA and head the United States Cyber Command, spent several hours answering to the Senate Armed Services Committee this week, explaining his views on national security and his desire to be "as transparent as possible with the broader nation about what we're doing, and why." This included a detailed account of the need to create dedicated cyber attack divisions to supplement traditional ground, naval and air forces, which he says will help act as a deterrent to countries that see the United States as an easy target. "Clearly, Cyber will be an element of almost any crisis we're going to see in the future," he told the Senate. "It increasingly is becoming a norm."
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Obama Says Intelligence Director Who Fibbed To Congress “Should Have Been More Careful”

President Obama diplomatically defended embattled Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who is accused of lying to Congress about the existence of the National Security Agency’s spying program.

“I think that Jim Clapper himself would acknowledge, and has acknowledged, that he should have been more careful about how he responded,” the president told CNN’s Jake Tapper. “His concern was that he had a classified program that he couldn’t talk about and he was in an open hearing in which he was asked, he was prompted to disclose a program, and so he felt that he was caught between a rock and a hard place.”

Clapper flat-out denied to Senator Ron Wyden, during congressional testimony, that the NSA collected “any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans.”

Clapper later apologized, but that hasn’t stopped critics like Senator Rand Paul from calling for Clapper’s resignation and potential prosecution.

“I find really that Clapper lying to Congress is probably more injurious to our intelligence capabilities than anything Snowden did, because Clapper has damaged the credibility of the entire intelligence apparatus, and I’m not sure what to believe anymore when they come to Congress,” Paul told CNN.

Support for prosecuting Clapper is mixed, which means that in the current Congressional environment any sanctions would be difficult to pass.

It certainly doesn’t send a good message to future intelligence officials, though, that they can essentially say whatever they want in public and don’t have to suffer anything harsher than a slap on the wrist.

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Managing Director Jonathan Teo Leaves General Catalyst, Might Set Sights On Asian Startups

. I also learned he’s been approached by other Silicon Valley firms but hasn’t shown an interest.

Though Teo is still based in San Francisco

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