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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) by khallow on Friday November 20 2020, @05:14AM (1 child)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Friday November 20 2020, @05:14AM (#1079637) Journal

    then why would some of those states collectively vote Biden for President but a GOP candidate for either Senate and/or Congressional races?

    Perhaps because neither Trump or Biden has coattails, and Trump has performed so terribly that he lost a bunch of Republican voters this time around.

  • (Score: 2) by zocalo on Friday November 20 2020, @09:36AM

    by zocalo (302) on Friday November 20 2020, @09:36AM (#1079670)
    To be clear, the question was rhetorical. It seems pretty clear that the logical explanation for the split is Republicans who don't want Trump is the White House, but do want GOP representation in the Senate/Congress if the alternative has to be a Biden presidency. (Also, if the system actually functioned and wasn't so partisan then splitting the three houses should - in theory - provide checks and balances). In terms of stuffing ballots, I guess you might do that for plausible deniability that it even happened, but probably not to the extent that actually occured, e.g. it seems incredibly unlikely that the Democrats will have control of the Senate, and will thus be banging heads with McConnell for the next four years.
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