Says a lot about American democracy
Despite having no obvious business or technology knowledge/expertise/track record, Oracle think he's just the man for the job - so presumably it's his political connections and clout in Washington that matter. What a sad state of affairs when large corporations (not just Oracle, obviously) can and need to buy their way into government like this.
Mind you, the "fresh perspective [he brings] to our Board” will be a great help should they ever feel the need to debate how far and fast they lower their pants when the TLAs come knocking for access to data in their cloudy bits.