President Trump on Wednesday ordered a federal research on Chris Krebs, former director of the CyBersecurity of America Cisa.
In A new executive commandTrump ordered the Ministry of Home Affairs, which houses CISA and the US Attorney General to investigate Krebs, who was fired by Trump’s administration in November 2020 shortly after publication of Trump’s false allegations of voting. The command also mentions Krebs security clearance.
The executive order claims, among other things, that Krebs “falsely and unfounded denied that the 2020 elections were equipped and stolen, including inappropriate and categorically rejecting the extensive elections and serious voting with voting machines.”
Trump and his associates have long claimed voting irregularities during the 2020 elections, without evidence. Trump launched a series of pipelines after the loss of elections in 2020, And almost all of them failed.
Founded during the first Trump administration, CISA oversees the federal defense of cyberspace and the security of US critical infrastructure, including electoral systems. Under Krebs’ term before its firing, Cisa began Combat incorrect and misinformation associated with election integrity and voter fraudMany of them were caused by the Russian government’s efforts in 2016 aimed at doubt the US electoral process.
The Trump command claims that Krebs has violated the first amendment, a constitutional rule that prohibits government intervention of freedom of speech and expression, according to a bearers to transcend its power as CISA manager in the election.
The mandate is also liable for anyone who works at Sentinelone, the company in the cyberspace that is now working for their security land.
Sentinelone spokesman Karen Master told TechCrunch in an e -mail that the company has fewer than ten security employees and that clearing recall is unlikely to have a significant effect on the company’s business.
Krebs is the last in a list of former US government officials who have been stripped of their security areas by Trump’s administration, many of whom worked during Trump’s first term and then criticize its actions.
Also on Wednesday, Trump signed a separate executive order Similarly by recalling his safety clearing A former internal security employee turned into a complaintwho wrote an anonymous article op-ed critical Trump’s policies during his first term.
