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of the different agencies so i want to go ahead and read a quote from white house spokeswoman caitlin hayden she told the washington post following a thorough interagency review the administration has decided that keeping the positions of n.s.a. director and cyber command commander together as one dual hatted position is the most effective approach to accomplishing both agency's missions so does that essentially mean business as usual as far as we know yes so that's the way it's structured right now general keith alexander is the head both of the n.s.a. and of cyber command so if they're kept together it means again that the same person will be running both will sort of have the scope of power the position has now and also will mean that the head of n.s.a. will be a military position because the head of cyber command has to be military and finally i can't let you go without talking about how a top n.s.a. official who is in charge of assessing the damage that edward snowden caused has actually said that he would consider granting snowden amnesty. he had possibly agreed to hand over the rest o

this is from caitlin hayden. she said mr.arges here in the united states and should be returned to the u.s. as soon as possible where he will be afforded due process and all the protection of our criminal justice system. so that is from the white house, continuing to urge him to come home and face justice. obviously the timing of this comes after a panel has made 46 recommendations about how to change the nsa to the president. what do you make of this? >> kristen, i have no inside information at the "post" about this interview but it looks like snowden is spiking the football and says mission accomplished. a couple of things stand out to me in this interview. number one, snowden is saying i'm not trying to bring down the nsa, i'm trying to make the nsa better so he's almost lecturing this agency that he worked for to say that you've got to clean up your act and those of us inside recognize that. one of the other things that stood out for me is that he said that along the way he did raise red flags inside the system. he's been