My interpretation is that this is what happens when you make a Fox News host Secretary of Defense. I think he is just too dumb to figure out a way to "finesse"

My interpretation is that this is what happens when you make a Fox News host Secretary of Defense. I think he is just too dumb to figure out a way to "finesse" the situation so the NSA etc. can use it however they want, or at least to know that it's politically intractable to make it a public fight.