The Trump administration has pulled security clearances for former CISA head Chris Krebs and ex-DHS official Miles Taylor and has ordered investigations into their actions while in office.
For a refresher, the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) was reportedly in direct contact with platforms like Twitter throughout the 2020 election cycle, which one DJS official told the NY Times “was the biggest change that helped shore up digital defenses in [2020] election management systems.”
The White House issued the following statement regarding Krebs:
Christopher Krebs, the former head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), is a significant bad-faith actor who weaponized and abused his Government authority. Krebs’ misconduct involved the censorship of disfavored speech implicating the 2020 election and COVID-19 pandemic. CISA, under Krebs’ leadership, suppressed conservative viewpoints under the guise of combatting supposed disinformation, and recruited and coerced major social media platforms to further its partisan mission. CISA covertly worked to blind the American public to the controversy surrounding Hunter Biden’s laptop. Krebs, through CISA, promoted the censorship of election information, including known risks associated with certain voting practices. Similarly, Krebs, through CISA, falsely and baselessly denied that the 2020 election