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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 20 2020, @02:03AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 20 2020, @02:03AM (#1079541)

    You're clearly not attending Evangelical churches in small midwestern towns. Plenty of "credible sources," "good people" are so convinced of their "proof" that they're charismatically influencing their community members to believe right along with them.

    Frankly, as a Christian I find this very disturbing and disheartening; unfortunately, I find it also very believable that this is going on. I thought we Christians were supposed to stand up for the truth as best we understood it. Instead, it looks like many Christians have completely given themselves over to tribalism and various half-baked conspiracy theories. We should be better than this. I am so ashamed.