The statement confirmed earlier reports about staff being sidelined, a move that comes as DHS Secretary Kristi Noem has vowed to overhaul and reshape the scope of the cyber agency amid GOP concerns that its past efforts tackling false information on social media sites created pathways to censor conservative voices.
“The agency is undertaking an evaluation of how it has executed its election security mission with a particular focus on any work related to mis-, dis-, and malinformation,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said. “While the agency conducts the assessment, personnel who worked on mis-, dis-, and malinformation, as well as foreign influence operations and disinformation, have been placed on administrative leave.”
Administrative leave is “administratively authorized absence from duty without loss of pay or charge to leave,” according to the Office of Personnel Management. It was not immediately clear how many staff were placed in that category.
The CISA workforce has been permitted to take the Trump administration’s deferred resignation offer, reversing an exemption notice saying CISA and other DHS bureaus would not qualify because of national security reasons, Nextgov/FCW first reported. A judge recently extended the pause on the deferred resignation program as he considers the legal challenges to that workforce reduction effort.
In a related move, Attorney Genera ..
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