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Head of US Cybersecurity Agency Fired

posted by Fnord666 on Thursday November 19 2020, @03:26PM   Printer-friendly
from the retribution-can-be-petty dept.

MostCynical writes:

The Guardian has a story detailing the firing of Christopher Krebs, who served as the director of the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (Cisa)

President Trump made the announcement on Twitter on Tuesday, saying Krebs "has been terminated" and that his recent statement defending the security of the election was "highly inaccurate".

CISA last week released a statement refuting claims of widespread voter fraud. "The November 3rd election was the most secure in American history," the statement read. "There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised."

Krebs, is a former Microsoft executive, and was appointed by President Trump after allegations of Russian interference with the 2016 election.

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 19 2020, @04:57PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 19 2020, @04:57PM (#1079284)

    I don't think you understand what you are saying. Witnesses are evidence used in every case. It sounds like you are looking for some masked bandit [nypost.com] caught red handed with fraudulent ballots manning the vote count machine on video with a badge name.

    Let's put our thinking caps on. Without witnesses how do you prove election fraud? When observers and challengers are denied access to the count, how do you know what happened behind closed doors?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 19 2020, @05:28PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 19 2020, @05:28PM (#1079301)

    Except they were not.

    It's about the law and evidence.

    See here for actual information:
    https://electionlawblog.org/ [electionlawblog.org]

  • (Score: 2) by sjames on Thursday November 19 2020, @06:52PM

    by sjames (2882) on Thursday November 19 2020, @06:52PM (#1079349) Journal

    Let's look at the quality of the complaints. How about the one where it was claimed that poll watchers were kept out where later the attorney for the plaintiff sheepishly admitted that a non-zero number of poll watchers were present for the counting...

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 19 2020, @07:01PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 19 2020, @07:01PM (#1079356)

    Witnesses are evidence used in every case.

    Except I am not saying I witnessed anything. I am just claiming that you murdered someone. So, tell us: why did you murder that guy? I hope they give you the death penalty for it. It would serve you right.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 19 2020, @07:40PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 19 2020, @07:40PM (#1079384)

      Is this about Glenn Beck, again? Some people were saying that . . .