Trump Revokes Security Clearance of Former CISA Director Chris Krebs

Trump Revokes Security Clearance of Former CISA Director Chris Krebs


President Donald Trump signed a Presidential Memorandum revoking the security clearance of former Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Chris Krebs.

While Trump signed various executive orders in the Oval Office on Wednesday, White House staff secretary Will Scharf explained to Trump that the Presidential Memorandum regarding Krebs “addresses his access to government existing clearances he might have.”

Scharf also explained that the Presidential Memorandum directs the Department of Justice (DOJ) and “other aspects” of the federal government “to investigate some of the malign acts” Krebs may have “participated in” while serving as the director of CISA.

“This is a man who weaponized his position against free speech in the election context, in the context of COVID-19,” Scharf said. “This is another,

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