national security agency director adm. michael rogers is the leading candidate to become president-elect donald trump <u+2019>s next director of national intelligence, two people familiar with the matter said, a move that would shift the nation<u+2019>s digital and cyberwarfare leader to the country<u+2019>s most senior spy post. adm. rogers has led the nsa and u.s. cyber command since 2014. he was brought in following a backlash to revelations in 2013 that the nsa was sweeping up bulk telephone records on millions of americans. he has pursued public outreach efforts since then to soften the nsa<u+2019>s image, though he still leads teams that conduct many classified surveillance, spying, and cyberwarfare operations. the nsa director met with mr. trump at trump tower in new york on thursday. adm. rogers<u+2019>s appointment as director of national intelligence could add a complication to the trump administration, in which the president-elect wants to pursue closer relations to russia , but where part of the national security establishment is suspicious of moscow<u+2019>s intentions. earlier this week, adm. rogers repeated the u.s. intelligence community<u+2019>s conclusions that moscow sought to tamper with u.s. elections by hacking into mailboxes of the democratic national committee and dumping their contents in the weeks before voting. <u+201c>this was not something that was done by chance, this was not a target that was selected purely arbitrarily,<u+201d> he said in a question-and-answer session at a conference in washington. <u+201c>this was a conscious effort by a nation state to attempt to achieve a specific effect.<u+201d> adm. rogers didn't offer a remedy to the problem with russia, but he said that countermeasures, including some outside the sphere of cyber, had been effective dealing with other intrusions from foreign lands. <u+201c>we<u+2019>ve also been very public as a government in saying, <u+2018>look, this is just unacceptable ,<u+2019> <u+201d> he said. <u+201c>we don<u+2019>t support this, this is outside the norms of acceptable behavior and we<u+2019>re not prepared to accept this.<u+201d> the office of director of national intelligence is an umbrella intelligence department created following the sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks , charged with ensuring the country<u+2019>s 17 spy agencies are sharing information to form the most comprehensive assessment possible of various threats. the dni, among other things, is responsible for delivering the president<u+2019>s daily brief, a collection of threats and other information from around the world. write to damian paletta at damian.paletta@wsj.com and alan cullison at alan.cullison@wsj.com
adm. michael rogers leading candidate to be trump<u+2019>s director of national intelligence - wsj
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