{"id":38270,"date":"2020-11-18T14:51:50","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T14:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packetstormsecurity.com\/news\/view\/31771\/Trump-Axes-Cyber-Chief-Who-Debunked-Claims-Of-Election-Fraud.html"},"modified":"2020-11-18T14:51:50","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T14:51:50","slug":"trump-axes-cyber-chief-who-debunked-claims-of-election-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/trump-axes-cyber-chief-who-debunked-claims-of-election-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Axes Cyber Chief Who Debunked Claims Of Election Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Christopher C. Krebs, director of the Homeland Security Department\u2019s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency speaks before the Senate Judiciary Committee on May 14, 2019 in Washington, DC. <\/figcaption>
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President Trump has fired the nation\u2019s top election security official, Christopher Krebs, head of the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Trump announced his decision Tuesday night via Twitter.<\/p>\n

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Krebs, a Trump appointee and former senior counselor at DHS, is widely regarded for his knack of avoiding partisan politics, which is said to have earned him vast credibility in Democratic and Republican circles alike at the state and national level. <\/p>\n

\u201cHonored to serve. We did it right. Defend Today, Secure Tomorrow,\u201d tweeted<\/a><\/span> Krebs, having overseen a dramatic overhaul<\/a><\/span> of election systems across the country, fortifying them again ransomware attacks and foreign intrusion, to widely acclaimed success<\/a><\/span>. <\/p>\n

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Trump\u2019s announcement comes as the president and his allies are busy disputing, without merit, the validity of the 2020 race, launching unsupported legal challenges in states like Pennsylvania and Georgia, and purposely stoking suspicion and anger around the election process.<\/p>\n

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\u201cChris Krebs is an extraordinary public servant and exactly the person Americans want protecting the security of our elections,\u201d said Sen. Mark Warner, vice-chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. \u201cIt speaks volumes that the president chose to fire him simply for telling the truth.\u201d <\/p>\n

In October, Krebs oversaw the launch<\/a><\/span> of the CISA website Rumor Control<\/a><\/span> to help voters \u201cdistinguish between rumors and facts on election security issues.\u201d The facts laid out by the site have at times conflicted with the baseless claims of the Trump campaign and its surrogates.<\/p>\n

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Soon after the election, for example, Trump\u2019s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and Sen. Matt Gaetz, a top ally on Capitol Hill, steered followers online to a Breitbart article about \u201cdead people\u201d on Pennsylvania\u2019s voter rolls. \u201cThe dead vote appears to have swung overwhelmingly for Joe Biden,\u201d Gaetz tweeted<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

CISA\u2019s Rumor Control website bluntly notes that people routinely die and that the deceased are moved off voter rolls as soon as possible. Election integrity safeguards, such as signature matching and database checks, \u201cprotect against voter impersonation and voting by ineligible persons.\u201d<\/p>\n

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