Posted on 07/31/2025 12:10:43 PM PDT by george76
On Wednesday, Army Secretary Dan Driscoll ordered West Point to terminate the employment of President Biden’s recently hired censorship czar.
The revelation came following a now unavailable Tuesday announcement from the academy that Jen Easterly, the former director of the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), would be serving as the new Robert F. McDermott Distinguished Chair within the school’s Department of Social Sciences. Easterly graduated from West Point in 1990.
“A Homecoming Worth Celebrating,” West Point Dean Shane Reeves wrote in a now unavailable X post congratulating Easterly. “Welcome home!”
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Easterly led CISA from July 2021 to January 2025, a time period during which she oversaw the agency’s efforts to censor Americans.
As described in a June 2023 report by the House Judiciary Committee, CISA was originally founded in 2018 “to be an ancillary agency designed to protect ‘critical infrastructure’ and guard against cybersecurity threats.” In the years that followed, however, it “metastasized into the nerve center of the federal government’s domestic surveillance and censorship operations on social media.”
A separate House committee report released later that year showed that CISA colluded with Stanford University to pressure Big Tech companies into censoring prominent conservative voices — including The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway and Sean Davis — leading up to the 2020 election. The agency’s censorship operations would continue to grow under Easterly’s tenure, with House lawmakers noting its efforts to “camouflage its activities” from the public by 2022 and 2023.
In addition to ordering Easterly’s termination, Driscoll instructed West Point to “immediately pause all non-governmental and outside groups from selecting employees of the Academy, including instructors, professors, teachers, and shaping academic or developmental lectures.” He further requested the chair of West Point’s Board of Visitors to “conduct an immediate top-down review of the United States Military Academy’s hiring practices.”
Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell released a statement responding to Driscoll’s announcement, saying, “We’re in the business of warfighting.”
“We’re not turning cadets into censorship activists. We’re turning them into warriors & leaders,” Parnell said. “Our future officers will get the most elite training so that America can continue to dominate on the battlefield.”
When pressed for additional comment, Defense Department spokesman Joshua Wick referred The Federalist to the Army and West Point for more information on “their hiring actions.” The Army and West Point did not immediately respond to The Federalist’s requests for comment.
UPDATE
After publication, an Army spokesman told The Federalist that Driscoll “took immediate action to direct West Point to terminate the service agreement with Jen Easterly, pause outside groups from selecting Academy employees or instructors, and has requested a review of West Point’s hiring practices.”
“Ahead of the upcoming academic year, we are crafting a deliberate approach to ensure that our future officers are best prepared to meet the demands of the modern battlefield,” the representative added.
A good move.
Arrest and imprison should be more like it.
We don’t need no speech police. Europe and Canada have enough of those.
And West Point doesn’t need a social sciences department.
There will be a DC judge that puts a halt to this move.
What other conservative voices and writers, besides those writing for The Federalist, did Jen Easterly censor, as director of CISA?
Why did it take this long.
She can find employment there.
Good! Now do the same for the Naval, Air Force, and Coast Guard academies.
Excellent. When is Robert E Lee returning to West Point?
Happy dance!
As Rush famously said a few times, the army exists to break things and kill people.
might want to take a look @ Dean Shane Reeves...
Bruce’s love child?
They need to get rid of every socialist/communist/gay/liberal instructor at West Point and all the other service academies. They are the infection, the cancer that rots away our officer corps. They also need to immediately eliminate all DEI and affirmative action appointments. There are enough female hippos and lower standard admissions “dudes” for quotas and the football team.
................... . . UNDER BIDEN/AUSTIN/MILLEY
What is that thing on her neck? Is that a QR code to communicate with her alien mother ship?
Being female, it pains me to admit, that introducing them into any position of authority is ...dangerous.
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