Posted on 04/09/2025 6:57:39 PM PDT by Red Badger
This afternoon, President Donald Trump signed a Presidential Memorandum that instructs the Department of Justice and “other aspects of [his] government” to investigate Chris Krebs and his acts as the former Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). At the signing, President Trump’s White House staff secretary Will Scharf stated:
“This is a man who weaponized his position against free speech in the election context and the context of COVID-19. This is a similar Presidential Memorandum to the one you just signed. It addresses his access to government existent clearances he might have and further instructs your Department of Justice, other aspects of your government, to investigate some of the malign acts he participated in while he was still head of CISA.”
Before signing the memorandum, President Trump rehashed the consequences of the stolen 2020 election, including the deaths from the botched Afghanistan withdrawal, the Russia-Ukraine war, and October 7th.
President Trump called it “a very corrupt election” and said “they used COVID to cheat.” He called Krebs a “wise-guy” and referenced his absurd statement almost immediately following the 2020 Election, calling it the “most secure in U.S. history.”
As an added bonus, it appears Michigan’s governor, Gretchen Whitmer, was present in the Oval Office for the signing of this declaration. Very interesting!
On November 12, 2020, Chris Krebs said that “government and industry representatives from the election security community issued a joint statement reflecting a consensus perspective that the 2020 election was the most secure in U.S. history.”
Secret CISA Vulnerabilities Report Prior to the 2020 Election It was an absolutely absurd assertion coming just nine days after the election, and only five days after Joe Biden was proclaimed the winner by the Mockingbird Media. In February 2024, Yehuda Miller uncovered a 2020 CISA report titled “Election Infrastructure Subsector Cyber Risk Summary,” that was published in March 2021.
The Executive Summary reads:
“This report provides analysis, findings, and recommendations derived from non-attributable cybersecurity trends observed between November 3, 2019, and November 3, 2020 – Election Year 2020 (EY20).”
CISA’s analysis of the available data assessed EI (election infrastructure) entities found:
76% of EI entities for which CISA performed a Risk and Vulnerability Assessment (RVA) had spearphishing weaknesses, which provide an entry point for adversaries to launch attacks; 48% of entities had a critical or high severity vulnerability on at least one internet-accessible host, providing potential attack vectors to adversaries; 39% of entities ran at least one risky service on an internet-accessible host, providing the opportunity for threat actors to attack otherwise legitimate services; and 34% of entities ran unsupported operating systems (OSs) on at least one internet-accessible host, which exposes entities to compromise.
Whether or not the findings of this report were known to Krebs when he made that reckless statement less than a week after a “winner” had been declared is not known, however, the fact that a year-long investigation into the vulnerabilities and the imminent report should have absolutely been known prior to that statement being made.
The report was set as TLP:Amber, which means Traffic Light Protocal. “Amber” means that “information that’s for limited disclosure and may be shared on a need-to-know basis, either only to those within an organization or its clients.”
Mass Censorship
The Gateway Pundit reported extensively on the Department of Homeland Security and CISA's involvement, under Director Krebs, in the censorship operation that took place in 2020, regarding COVID-19 and the 2020 Election. The two government entities worked with the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP), a collaboration of Digital Forensics Research Lab, Graphika, Stanford Internet Observatory, and the University of Washington Center for an Informed Public.
In the EIP's Long Fuse Report, they laid out a massive censorship operation and their efforts to corroborate between government officials and social media companies to remove what they deemed "misinformation" and "disinformation."
SolarWinds Hack
In December 2020, following the 2020 Presidential Election, CISA announced a massive sophisticated supply chain hack against SolarWinds, an IT management, network monitoring, and system performance optimization firm used by the federal government.
The attack infiltrated SolarWinds' Orion software platform and distributed malicious updates to over 18,000 organizations worldwide. At the time, Dominion Voting Systems was using SolarWinds' software on their system, according to a report from The Gateway Pundit in December 2020.
Chris Krebs would coincidentally go on to form the Krebs Stamos Group with Alex Stamos, the former Chief Security Officer for Facebook and the Director of the Stanford Internet Observatory. The same Stanford Internet Observatory that spearheaded the EIP and the 2020 censorship efforts.
As if that wasn't enough of a "Small World" connection, their first client, according to TechCrunch, was none other than SolarWinds.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency was established and signed into law in 2018. Chris Krebs, an environmental sciences major and Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia and George Mason University, respectively, was designated the first acting Director.
Here are some other stories The Gateway Pundit has reported on regarding Chris Krebs:
This was the moron who pronounced the 2020 election as our most secure in history. It was a Bidenesque statement, premature and devoid of foundation.
I don't think even Don Jr. could hold that pace.
Related to Maynard G. ?
Maynard was too lazy to be his brother...................
Hopefully he can reduce voter fraud for the midterms.
Without their cash flow of taxpayer dough they will be in a bind for ‘walking around money’...................
Plenty of Leftist billionaires more than willing to pony up funds to keep subverting America in whatever form they deem needed to stop Donald Trump.
The Leftists billionaires aren’t willing to use their money, they want to use YOUR money through all those fraudulent NGOs and USAID.................................
And the media took the lie and ran with it!
It does look that way. As though Trump is wearing several hats, in spite of having delegated much of this work to his cabinet members. These Security Clearances seem like an endeavor that Atty. General Bondi would be expected to have some involved with. Maybe there has been a scheduling conflict.
I am thankful it’s getting done, regardless.
after the cisa colonoscopy into their american shenanigans
might want to look into cisa and the dos and their help fortifying the last Brazilian election too
just sayin
We should figure out a way to clone the OG Trump.
I couldn’t do what he does and I suspect it would be a tough slog to find someone else who could both to it and fervently want to do it.
Plus having Yuge FU money and one’s own 757 to flit about whilst getting there. [GW only had a horse or two...]
do...
Trump shut up the entire DNC from the Clinton’s and Obama’s to the Pelosi gang. All the public fight went out of them. Now he is picking off their appointees one at a time. The appointees will give Tulsi the information needed to bring accountability to those who appointed them. This is going to be a fun ride watching them kiss Trump’s A$$ as he prosecutes the low hanging fruit. Eventually he will get around the actual elected members who need prosecuted.
Trump is One Of A Kind, I strongly suspect.
I don’t even expect any of his sons to automatically pick up and run with the baton, should he need to pass it on to the next standard bearer. The two oldest already have their own lives going on.
I already know ‘the Princess’ aka Ivanka, is a capable person, but she has a very different world view from her father. Ivanka has her own kind of steely resolve and inner strength. I can see it, even when she’s smiling. That may come from being mostly raised by her Mom, the late Ivana.
Good for you, Mr. President. Take’em all down.
This seems like an obvious bad idea.
The folks around here who are demanding instant gratification are mental children. These cases will take time to develop into sure fire slam dunk prosecutions.
Amateurs rush to get a job done quickly while professionals take the time necessary to do things right.
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