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The Trump administration has eliminated the White Houses top cyber policy role, jettisoning a key position created during the Obama presidency to harmonize the government's overall approach to cybersecurity policy and digital warfare.
POLITICO first reported last week that John Bolton, President Donald Trump's new national security adviser, was maneuvering to cut the cyber coordinator role, in a move that many experts and former government officials criticized as a major step backward for federal cybersecurity policy.
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According to an email sent to National Security Council staffers Tuesday, the decision is part of an effort to streamline authority for the senior directors who lead most NSC teams. The role of cyber coordinator will end, Christine Samuelian, an aide to Bolton, wrote in the email to NSC employees, which POLITICO obtained from a former U.S. official.
The NSCs cyber team has two senior directors, Samuelian wrote, and thus cyber coordination is already a core capability.
Rob Joyce, Trumps first coordinator who came from the NSA, left the White House on Friday and will return to Fort Meade. Cyber policy experts, lawmakers and former officials had urged Trump to replace Joyce and not to abolish the position.
https://www.politico.com/amp/story/2018/05/15/white-house-eliminates-cyber-adviser-post-542916?__twitter_impression=true
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