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The Next NSA Chief Is More Used to Cyberwar Than Spy Games

Published: April 4, 2018, 8 a.m.

After sailing through two friendly Senate hearings\u2014one so uncontroversial that only six senators tops bothered to even show up at any given point in the hour\u2014Lieutenant General Paul Nakasone seems set to for confirmation as the next director of the National Security Agency. That means he'll soon lead not just one agency, but two: the world's most powerful spying operation, the NSA, and the world's most powerful military hacker force, US Cyber Command.