90% of NSA administrators to lose their jobs in an effort to lessen potential whistleblowers

08/09/2013 - 00:00


BY JONATHAN ALLEN -

The National Security Agency, hit by disclosures of classified data by former contractor Edward Snowden, said Thursday it intends to eliminate about 90 percent of its system administrators to reduce the number of people with access to secret information.

Keith Alexander, the director of the NSA, the U.S. spy agency charged with monitoring foreign electronic communications, told a cybersecurity conference in New York City that automating much of the work would improve security.

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