PPD-20 elimination opens arguments over how U.S. should conduct offensive hacking operations

Joshua Geltzer, was quoted in an article at CyberScoop about on the Trump administration's reversal of an Obama-era directive that imposed restrictions on U.S. cyberwarfare capabilities.

Joshua Geltzer, who served as a senior NSC official from 2015 to 2017, said removing PPD-20 is in keeping with an effort “you see from [the Trump] administration to, at least in their view, empower departments and agencies in the national security space.”

“I’m sympathetic to that urge, but it can’t be at the expense of considering the various equities at stake,” Geltzer told CyberScoop. “And in the cyber area, [that means] working through some pretty tough legal issues.