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Daily Dashboard | NSA Director Retiring, Opportunity for Administration Related reading: OPC details lessons learned from CRA, ESDC breaches

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The Obama administration has announced that National Security Agency Director Gen. Keith Alexander plans to retire in the spring, and privacy advocates are seeing this as an opportunity to improve oversight at the agency, The Hill reports. Currently, the administration has the ability to appoint a new director without approval. However, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) has a proposal on the table to require Senate approval for the appointment, though Electronic Privacy Information Center Attorney Amie Stepanovich said that measure would effectively give the "Senate Intelligence Committee—which has not protected individual rights—even more power." She also expressed her hope that the next appointee is “more aware of these real constitutional and statutory issues and will make sure that individual rights are more protected."
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