Bryan Ware, the assistant director of the cybersecurity division at CISA, unexpectedly resigned today. And now Reuters is reporting that Chris Krebs, the director of CISA, expects to be fired by the White House today as part of a purge of political appointees who are considered not loyal to President Donald Trump.
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In a follow-up Reuters story, CISA chief, Christopher Krebs, said he expects to be asked to leave the agency by the Trump White House in the coming days.
Krebs has run afoul of the White House, Reuters’ Chris Bing reports, by actively debunking conspiracy theories on its “Rumor Control” website. In particular, one of the false claims that CISA singled out involved a purported supercomputer hacking of the voting systems, which some Trump surrogates have pushed as evidence that the election was stolen.
I get a Gov. Jim McGreevey vibe from this Ware character.
I found an article which showed more about this Krebs fellow, derp for sure. Probably caught him in the act.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3905072/posts?page=1329#1329
This Reuters article linked in the article you linked to has damning info. Photo of Krebs and he does look derpish. There is a lot more at article. Now looks to me as though Krebs and Ware were left in their positions to catch them, too.
Couple snips:
WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Top U.S. cybersecurity official Christopher Krebs, who worked on protecting the election from hackers but drew the ire of the Trump White House over efforts to debunk disinformation, has told associates he expects to be fired, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
Krebs has drawn praise from both Democrats and Republicans for his handling of the election, which generally ran smoothly despite persistent fears that foreign hackers might try to undermine the vote.
But he drew the ire of the Trump White House over a website run by CISA dubbed “Rumor Control” which debunks misinformation about the election, according to the three people familiar with the matter.
White House officials have asked for content to be edited or removed which pushed back against numerous false claims about the election, including that Democrats are behind a mass election fraud scheme. CISA officials have chosen not to delete accurate information.
In particular, one person said, the White House was angry about a CISA post rejecting a conspiracy theory that falsely claims an intelligence agency supercomputer and program, purportedly named Hammer and Scorecard, could have flipped votes nationally. No such system exists, according to Krebs, election security experts and former U.S. officials.
On Twitter, U.S. Senator Mark Warner, a Democrat, wrote: “Chris Krebs has done a great job protecting our elections. He is one of the few people in this Administration respected by everyone on both sides of the aisle. There is no possible justification to remove him from office. None.”
