The NSA‘s newly-developed concern for „optics“ is being tested by employees both former and current. Keith Alexander, the NSA‘s longtime leading man, took his snooping show on the road, offering his expertise to banks for $1 million/month. But he couldn‘t leave it all behind, attempting to drag the current NSA CTO along with him by offering him an interesting — but conflicting — part-time position with IronNet Security. The NSA said, „That‘s fine.“ Then it said, „We‘re looking into it.“ Then it said nothing while Keith Alexander pulled the plug on the deal while simultaneously denying any sort of impropriety.