The official said the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was General. Mark Mille and Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller are required by law to certify that certain requirements have been met before the split occurs.
A U.S. official has confirmed that Milne received a proposal from the Department of Defense this weekend.
A spokesman for Mille said the general had “not reviewed or endorsed any proposal to split CYBarcom and the NSA.”
The defense official told CNN that the sentiment in both organizations is that existing efforts are being “rushed” and that it would be “unwise to do this quickly or massively.”
The split between the NSA and cyber command has long been debated, but there has been a slow rise in this by the outgoing administration.
House Armed Services Chairman Adam Smith, who has urged Pentagon officials not to split the NSA and cyber command, told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer in “The Situation Room” on Saturday that “it is important to keep public pressure on the president because he has shown that there is nothing.” No. It will not weaken the country to further its own personal interests. “
“Separating these relationships without proper assessment and certification would be against the law,” the Washington Democrat’s office fee said in a statement Saturday evening.
In a letter to Miley and Miller on Friday, Smith wrote, “As you know, NSA and CYBarcom are uniquely related to each other and share the same resources to many. There is a time when the country is wrestling with what could be the most damaging cyber attack in our country’s history. “
At least half a dozen federal agencies are now known to have been targeted in recent hacking, including the Department of Homeland Security’s Cyber Arm and the Department of Agriculture, Commerce, Energy and the State. Investigators are still trying to determine if government data could be hacked or stolen, if any.
White House officials prepared a statement blaming Russia for the attack and were preparing to release it on Friday afternoon but were told to stand down, according to people familiar with the plans. Officials were not initially told why the statement was pulled back.
This story has been updated with additional developments.
CNN’s Kelly Mena, Veronica Straklursi, Kevin Liptak and Jennifer Hensler contributed to this report.
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