{"id":29301,"date":"2020-11-19T13:24:21","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T21:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=29301"},"modified":"2020-11-19T13:24:21","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T21:24:21","slug":"trump-fires-top-federal-cybersecurity-official-gop-senators-push-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=29301","title":{"rendered":"Trump fires top federal cybersecurity official, GOP senators push back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump ousted Christopher Krebs, the top U.S. cybersecurity official, on Tuesday evening, disagreeing with his statement affirming the security of the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, who has refused to accept his loss to Democrat\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/qfnhyjnqdmmtcjcmtvgddthhdntrmnmbbfdqjprmnvvshs_pqhhmmjqjbhlfmcyqyyd.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/qfnhyjnqdmmtcjcmtvgddthhdntrmnmbbfdqjprmnvvshs_pqhhmmjqjbhlfmcyqyyd.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1605828921279000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0X_fUYCS0RqfpjzV0vvE-G\">Joe Biden<\/a>\u00a0in the presidential election earlier this month, said on Twitter that Krebs had been terminated &#8220;effective immediately.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump said a recent statement by the cyber chief about the election being secure\u00a0was \u201chighly inaccurate\u201d and claimed, without evidence, that \u201cthere were massive improprieties and fraud \u2014 including dead people voting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPoll Watchers not allowed into polling locations, &#8216;glitches&#8217; in the voting machines which changed votes from Trump to Biden, late voting, and many more,\u201d the president wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTherefore, effective immediately,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/ykvcypmrvssnwpwsnfkvvnccvmntsmszzgvrpbtsmffqcf_pqhhmmjqjbhlfmcyqyyd.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/ykvcypmrvssnwpwsnfkvvnccvmntsmszzgvrpbtsmffqcf_pqhhmmjqjbhlfmcyqyyd.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1605828921280000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1fFCPg0qcWRXyrgegc1dVt\">Chris Krebs<\/a>\u00a0has been terminated as Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Krebs, a Trump appointee, had served as director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) at the Department of Homeland Security since\u00a0the agency&#8217;s establishment in 2018. Krebs previously helmed CISA\u2019s predecessor agency, the National Protection and Programs Directorate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump ousted Christopher Krebs, the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29302,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29301\/revisions\/29302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}