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> He rose through the ranks of the agency to become its chief data scientist. Friends and former colleagues of Mr. Nguyen said he had been in charge of developi
by duxup 1y ago
> He rose through the ranks of the agency to become its chief data scientist. Friends and former colleagues of Mr. Nguyen said he had been in charge of developing artificial intelligence systems to improve the gathering of foreign communications. He has also been involved in the intelligence community’s work on quantum computing, which has the potential to break current encryption systems and revolutionize espionage.
Lost job because a political appointee claims he did something or other…. but won’t show any proof of it.
Current administration is a clown car of incompetence.
- quantified 1y agoWhy do you say incompetence? They are systematically trying to mess things up. Doing more or less a good job of it, crashing it gently enough to avoid losing their heads.
- subscribed 1y agoAlmost like they were running the playbook "how to comprehensively destroy the USA damaging as much of the western relationships as possible".
- ahmeneeroe-v2 1y agoPurges at the NSA (political or not) are hardly destroying the US. Snowden did more damage to the NSA than Trump and Co have done.
- Gibbon1 1y agoA friend had an apt description of these guys. They are TV people. Take that and run with it and it all makes sense.
- mindslight 1y agoThat explains a lot, but it still doesn't capture the extent of the outright malice.
- Gibbon1 1y agoI have a friend that used to work for TV people at one time. End of comment about those people, it is so much worse than you can imagine.
- duxup 1y agoI don’t give up on incompetence being the cause easily, nor a little of both.
- treetalker 1y ago> Lost job because a political appointee … Not entirely sure this is accurate: according to the article, Gabbard (political appointee) fired him because Trump ordered her to do so. The question is why Trump gave that order; I suspect, but cannot show any direct evidence, that Laura Loomer (not a political appointee) had something to do with it. (As discussed in the article and as we know from many other instances and sources, Loomer goes about picking people to get rid of — for whatever reasons — and apparently has a lot of sway with Trump.) But don't get me wrong: I agree with you in spirit! > Current administration is a clown car of incompetence. Self-evident.
- bananapub 1y agothis isn’t incompetence, it’s deliberate destruction of the functioning of the US state. they don’t want it to work anymore.
- gosub100 1y agoWell, we already have proof all NSA employees violate the constitution. Does that help?