President Donald Trump signed a pair of executive orders on Wednesday directing his administration to suspend security clearances for a pair of antagonistic officials who served in his first administration.
In addition to severing Miles Taylor and Christopher Krebs from the fount of insider federal knowledge, Trump has directed the relevant authorities in his administration to “take all appropriate action to review” the duo’s activities while still government employees.
Trump characterized Krebs, the former head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, in his order as a “significant bad-faith actor who weaponized and abused his Government” and engaged in “abusive conduct.”
“Krebs’ misconduct involved the censorship of disfavored speech implicating the 2020 election and COVID-19 pandemic,” wrote Trump. “CISA, under Krebs’ leadership, suppressed conservative viewpoints under the
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