DOJ’s Shocking Investigation Into Chris Krebs For Stating Trump Lost 2020 Election Is Already Taking Its Toll
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The Department of Justice has now confirmed that it is investigating Christopher Krebs, who previously served as the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency during the first Trump administration, at President Donald Trump’s direction.
In a memo released by the White House last month, Trump declared that “Christopher Krebs, the former head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), is a significant bad-faith actor who weaponized and abused his Government authority.”
“Krebs, through CISA, promoted the censorship of election information, including known risks associated with certain voting practices. Similarly, Krebs, through CISA, falsely and baselessly denied that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen, including by inappropriately and categorically dismissing widespread election malfeasance and serious vulnerabilities with voting machines. Krebs skewed the bona fide debate about COVID-19 by attempting to discredit widely shared views that ran contrary to CISA’s favored perspective,” continued the memo, in which Trump directed “the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with any other agency head, to take all appropriate action to review Krebs’ activities as a Government employee, including his leadership of CISA.”
On Thursday, The New York Times reported that the DOJ had followed Trump’s orders — and that Krebs has already begun to feel the effects:
Trump administration officials said on Thursday that Chris Krebs, who debunked President Trump’s lies about the 2020 election as head of the federal cybersecurity agency, lost his membership in an expedited customs program for travelers because he is facing a federal investigation.
The officials declined to specify why Mr. Krebs was under investigation, nor did they indicate which agencies were conducting the inquiry. The disclosure came three weeks after Mr. Trump, in an act of score settling and intimidation, directed the Justice Department to investigate Mr. Krebs.
A Department of Homeland Security spokesman told the Times that “Chris Krebs is under active investigation by law enforcement agencies” and that “That is a fact disqualifying him for global entry.”
Krebs also recently left his job at cybersecurity company SentinelOne, telling his colleagues in an email that dealing with the ramifications of Trump’s actions would require his “complete focus and energy.”
After Trump lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden, Krebs dismissed conspiracy theories about the election having been stolen as “nonsense.”
He was fired by Trump after he issued a statement that read: “59 election security experts all agree, ‘in every case of which we are aware, these claims either have been unsubstantiated or are technically incoherent.’”
The news of the investigation into Krebs comes amidst a flurry of other notable actions Trump has taken against his political enemies since taking his second oath of office, including stripping them of their security details, threatening them with legal action, and issuing orders of the kind directed at Krebs.
