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President Trump on Wednesday ordered a federal investigating into Chris Krebs , the former director of U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA .
Ina new order , Trump instructed the Department of Homeland Security , which houses CISA , and the U.S. attorney general to investigate Krebs , who was fired by the Trump governance in November 2020 soon after hepublicly debunk Trump ’s claimsthat there were vote irregularities during the presidential election . The order also vacate Krebs ’ certificate headway .
The order claims , among other things , that Krebs “ falsely and baselessly denied that the 2020 election was rigged and steal , including by inappropriately and flatly dismissing far-flung election malfeasance and serious exposure with ballot machine . ”
Trump and his associates have long exact voting unregularity during the 2020 election , without evidence . Trump launched a serial of suit after lose the election in 2020,and nigh all of them failed .
Established during the first Trump governing body , CISA manage federal cybersecurity defence and the security of U.S. critical substructure , including election systems . Under Krebs ’ land tenure , CISA begancombating mis- and disinformation related to election integrity and voter fraud , much of which was sparked by Russian campaign in 2016 aimed at casting doubt on the U.S. electoral process .
The Trump order claims that Krebs rape the First Amendment , a constitutional rule that prohibits government activity interference of free speech and construction , by allegedly surpass his authority as CISA director in forestall the election falsehoods .
The orderliness also strip anyone who works at SentinelOne , the cybersecurity troupe that Krebs now works at , of their protection clearance .
SentinelOne spokesperson Karen Master tell apart TechCrunch in an email that the company “ will actively cooperate in any review of security clearances held by any of our personnel office , ” and said that the party has few than 10 employees with surety headroom . The spokesperson tell the headroom revocation are not expected to have a real effect on the company ’s business .
Krebs is the belated in a listing of former U.S. government official who have been stripped of their security clearance by the Trump organisation . Many of them worked during Trump ’s first terminus and have been subsequently vital of its actions .
Also on Wednesday , Trump signed a separateordersimilarly vacate the security clearance ofa former Homeland Security official turned whistle blower , who had pennedan anonymous op - ed article criticalof Trump ’s policies during his first term .
