Democracies need to regulate their cyber intelligence officers after retirement

Published March 30, 2023 9:12am ET



How do the best and the brightest from the U.S. National Security Agency and Israel’s intelligence community go to work for America’s and Israel’s enemies, proliferate cyber espionage, and facilitate spying on dissidents the world over? Simple: they take the expertise they learned in the service of their country and sell it to the highest bidder. Who’s buying? Everyone. What has the democratic world, including the Biden administration, been doing? Nothing.

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