美国****局（NSA）相对较新的负责人迈克尔·罗杰斯上将上周以公开淡化爱德华·斯诺登泄密事件的重要性为头条新闻。
事实上，他并没有真的轻描淡写——他只是没有像他的前任基思·亚历山大将军那样轻描淡写，亚历山大将军称这些泄密事件是“我们联合国情报系统遭受的最大破坏，这是我们有史以来所遭受的”，他还到处说斯诺登是俄罗斯间谍。
相比之下，新来的家伙却表现得很酷。罗杰斯已经工作了大约三个月，他非常有外交手腕，也非常有分寸。”他在彭博社（Bloomberg）**网络安全峰会上说：“就我们正在做的事情以及为什么这样做对我们国家是一件好事展开广泛的对话。”我一分钟都不怀疑。”
时任海军中将罗杰斯在信息主导中心向水手们发表讲话(美国海军/维基百科）
除了担任国防部“沉默服务”的公关代言人外，罗杰斯还承担了与国安局局长职位捆绑在一起的两个正式角色：美国17触角情报机构的另一个分支中央安全局局长和美国网络司令部司令，军方网络工作的中心。
这意味着一个人负责****局的国内外监视，同时负责保卫美国**网络，协调针对敌人的网络攻击，并监督国防部其他部门的安全信息技术部门。
那么，他是谁？
Name: Michael S. Rogers
Age: 54–55
Hometown: Born in the Chicago area; lives in Washington, DC.
Hobbies: Working 14-15 hour days, "geek speak", stopping sailors from plugging their cellphones into the Secure Internet Protocol Router.
Profile: Rogers graduated from New Trier East High School in Winnetka, Illinois, where he "managed to avoid significant notice or accomplishment" but "enjoyed participating in the performing arts and broadcasting" while "gaining a group of friends with whom he remains close to this day."
Rogers wanted to go to the US Naval Academy — he'd wanted to be a Navy officer ever since he was young — but couldn’t get in. He ended up in the Reserve Officers Training Corps program at Auburn University, where he was bad at math and dropped calculus. He became a Surface Warfare Officer after graduation, a rank for junior officers just out of college. His redesignation to cryptology a few years later started his career in intelligence.
The young officer worked his way up through the Navy’s ranks, eventually serving as director of intelligence for the Joint Chiefs of Staff and then head of the US Tenth Fleet and Fleet Cyber Command, the Navy’s cyber-warfare force. There he fought off around "100 probes," or cyberattacks, a day, including those from one Iranian hacker who twice prompted an organization-wide email shutdown and was "driving the Navy ... nuts" (he or she was never caught). Rogers liked to refer to his men in the Fleet as "Jedi knights."
Rogers is a manager. He likes to build teams. "I can lead," he told a class of high schoolers at his alma mater. "I can bring groups together. I can motivate people."
He prides himself on being a liaison to the military’s technologists. "I’m not a computer engineer," he says." I’m not a computer scientist. I’m not a mathematician. But I’m comfortable with it."
He acknowledges being groomed for the NSA position. When he was nominated, he reasoned that he owed it to the military to step up even though Snowden’s revelati*** had put the agency in a "tough spot." "Now it’s payback time," he told his wife, Dana, according to a military press release. "What kind of leader, what kind of teammate would I be if I turned my back?"
The new NSA chief has spent his first three months appearing at conferences, meeting with other agencies, and dialing back the government's rhetoric about Edward Snowden. (Rogers still believes the former NSA contractor is "arrogant," however.) According to Rogers, Americans' expectation of privacy is being weakened because of cellphones and online services, not because of domestic surveillance.
Quote: "If you are not excited by the opportunity that cyber represents to the Navy … then you do not have a pulse."
罗杰斯似乎是一个头脑冷静、善于分析的思考者，与签署提名的奥巴马总统并无不同。现在猜测他会做什么还为时过早，但到目前为止，他似乎至少愿意假装让公众了解****局的活动，并屈服于新的权力限制。他似乎也准备妥协。但由于该机构面临的审查比以往任何时候都多，他必须这样做。
