When asked if there is anything that could prevent another private contractor from accessing and leaking classified information from the NSA’s systems, Alexander said, “This is a key issue we’ve got to work our way through. Clearly, the system did not work as it should have.”
“[Snowden] betrayed the trust and confidence we had in him. This was an individual with top secret clearance whose duty it was to administer these networks. He betrayed that confidence and stole some of our secrets,” Alexander added. “We are now putting in place actions that would give us the ability to track our system administrators, what they are doing, what they’re taking, a two-man rule. We’ve changed the passwords. But at the end of the day, we have to trust that our people are gonna do the right thing.”
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