Howard Schmidt was the White House cybersecurity coordinator for 2. years. Schmidt says he was extremely busy wrapping up his White House job to talk to me for my story. He says he feels the tone of the blog insults career civil servants working hard to defend the nation. Schmidt: “It doesn’t require running to the president every five minutes to have some level of authority and influence” Schmidt agrees with the perception that the job was not one with czar-like powers like a czar.”]
Source: https://www.cuinfosecurity.com/blogs/last-word-schmidt-on-being-non-czar-p-1297