Trump’s pick for top CIA lawyer calls for greater cyber, contractor scrutiny
President Donald Trump’s pick to run the Central Intelligence Agency’s legal department earned bipartisan support on Wednesday after promising to address the cybersecurity concerns voiced by the intelligence community’s leadership.
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence approved Courtney Simmons Elwood to serve as the CIA’s general counsel, a role that ranking member Mark Warner (D-Va.) said would uniquely position her at the “critical intersection between intelligence and policy-making.”
Elwood, a partner with the law firm Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel & Frederick, told lawmakers she would work with CIA Director Mike Pompeo and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coates in shoring up the intelligence community’s contractor workforce and addressing emerging cyber threats.
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