New names surface for NSA director, other top jobs at spy agency

After a months-long leadership vacuum amid intense scrutiny from one of President Donald Trump’s most vocal far-right supporters, the National Security Agency is readying a number of senior personnel moves meant to reinvigorate the organization.

The foreign electronic eavesdropping agency has lacked a permanent chief for nearly seven months and experienced a stream of high-level departures, as well as pressure from the administration to pare down its workforce. 

Names are surfacing for the agency’s top job, its No. 2 position and its general counsel. There also is an ongoing shakeup among key cybersecurity and international posts and within the civilian workforce at large.

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