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Posted: July 24th, 2016

By Rhea Siers

Rhea Siers is the former Deputy Associate Director for Policy at NSA.  She currently works as a cybersecurity and national security consultant, attorney and educator and teaches at the Elliott School of International Affairs (George Washington University) and Johns Hopkins University.

Social media is a potentially powerful source of information for the Intelligence Community, but the tensions between the government and the tech industry have made it more difficult for the IC to partner with industry in order to efficiently utilize it. The Cipher Brief asked Rhea Siers, former Deputy Associate Director for Policy at the National Security Agency, about this issue and its likely effect upon national security. Her take? There are bigger issues at stake here than social media, and both parties need to get smarter about working together in order to help keep people safe.

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