A man with absolutely no experience in cyber let alone security, yet a well-known reputation for government confidentiality breaches, has been given a White House appointment.

Cairncross, who served alongside Priebus in the senior-most levels of the RNC, has been systemically leaking information designed to help Priebus and hurt Priebus’s rivals inside the White House, a senior official tells Breitbart News. Senior administration officials have been aware of Cairncross’ leaking behavior, too, and have been watching him closely.”

TheReg puts the developing National Cyber Director situation mildly.

GOP lawyer Sean Cairncross will be learning on the fly, as we also say hi to new intelligence boss Tulsi Gabbard. […] Like Trump’s pick for White House Chief Information Officer, Cairncross’ professional history lacks direct professional experience for the role…

Tulsi who?

Tulsi Gabbard’s history with Russia is even more concerning than you think. One expert says her views are ‘so wildly fringe that her potential appointment as DNI is genuinely alarming’.

Oh, THAT Tulsi.

British security chiefs alarmed by Trump’s ‘Russia apologist’ spy boss: Tulsi Gabbard under intense scrutiny over perceived support for the Kremlin

So, following a pattern, we see now a staunch loyalist with no qualifications has been put in charge of the cybers?

Other than the obvious loyalty pattern, is there more here? He’s best known for his leaking behavior, sure enough, so maybe that means Trump confused him with the well-known Cairncross of Bletchley Park, a man famous in Moscow?

Following Philby’s defection to the Soviet Union in 1964, Cairncross was again interrogated by MI5 and he confessed to being a Soviet spy. In exchange for providing information about Soviet personnel and other matters, he was not prosecuted and his involvement was kept silent. In the 1990s, Cairncross was identified as the “fifth man” in the Cambridge spy ring by former Soviet intelligence officers.

Wonder what Putin said when Tulsi Gabbard told him that a “leaking behavior” Cairncross would be put in charge of cyber. Or maybe leaks meant Putin was actually the first to find out and told Tulsi. Historians can’t wait to expose the corruption.

Brother at the top helped Fifth Man John Cairncross to escape justice

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