Five days ago, officials from both parties and across state and local governments issued a historic statement: “The November 3rd election was the most secure in American history.”
Amid the worst global health crisis in living memory, a record number of Americans successfully and safely cast their vote in the U.S. presidential election. That they were able to do so, and that officials across the country could testify to the integrity of the vote, is due in no small part to the efforts of Christopher Krebs, who was fired tonight as director of the Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency, or CISA.
Krebs ran afoul of Donald Trump by refusing to let the president’s lies and baseless assertions about the election go unchallenged. In one of his final tweets as CISA director, Krebs wrote, “ICYMI: On allegations that election systems were manipulated, 59 election security experts all agree, ‘in every case of which we are aware, these claims either have been unsubstantiated or are technically incoherent.’”
For his efforts to secure America’s vote, Krebs was sacked by presidential tweet on Tuesday, nearly two years after Trump signed the legislation that created the agency under the Homeland Security Department. His deputy, Matt Travis, also resigned, reportedly upon learning that he would not take Krebs’s place at the agency’s helm. The acting director will likely be director fired after challenging president baseless election claims
