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| Top FBI cyber officials set to retire |
| 2018-07-20 |
| [CNN] David Resch, the executive assistant director in charge of the FBI's Criminal, Cyber, Response and Services Branch, is retiring after more than two decades of service, as is Scott Smith, who worked under him as the head of the Cyber Division. The moves are not atypical for FBI agents who have hit the work milestones that the men recently did, making them eligible to receive retirement benefits. But they come as threats in the cyber world, like Russia's election interference and online foreign influence campaigns, have reached a point of alarm. The bureau also confirmed the upcoming retirement of a third top official, Executive Assistant Director Carl Ghattas, who heads the National Security Branch. Over a 20-year career, Ghattas worked several of the bureau's most high-profile counterterrorism cases. Resch and Ghattas had been appointed to their senior positions earlier this year. In their roles -- overseeing all of the bureau's global criminal and cyber investigations, and national security operations and intelligence efforts, respectively -- both men would have been on the front lines of the US fight against Russian hacking. An FBI official said Thursday that the retirements were not related to the wider climate around the bureau, and pointed to a hiring boom in the late 1990s that has led to a recent rise in senior agent retirements. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #6 Where are the servers? /rhet question |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-07-20 20:34 |
| #5 The long awaited cleaning of the Augean Stables? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-07-20 16:40 |
| #4 three of the top FBI officials -- Scott Smith, David Resch, and Carl Ghattas -- are exiting the bureau. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-07-20 15:57 |
| #3 These guys have no experience in Cyber. Wray promoted Resch from training at Q last year. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-07-20 13:53 |
| #2 Replacing them with compliant ones that can be relied upon to make sure the midterms come out the correct way and trump gets impeached. |
| Posted by: Herb McCoy 2018-07-20 13:27 |
| #1 Is it just that they’ve reached that point in life, or that they do not wish to answer the questions that eventually must be asked? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2018-07-20 13:23 |