Federal workers whose job is to ensure the security of U.S. elections have been placed on leave
Source: AP News
ATLANTA (AP) Staffers at the nations cybersecurity agency whose job is to ensure the security of U.S. elections have been placed on administrative leave, jeopardizing critical support provided to state and local election offices across the country.
In recent days, 17 employees of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency who have worked with election officials to provide assessments and trainings dealing with a range of threats from cyber and ransomware attacks to physical security of election workers have been placed on leave pending a review, according to a person familiar with the situation who was not authorized to speak publicly.
Ten of those employees are regional election security specialists hired as part of an effort to expand field staff and election security expertise ahead of the 2024 election. The regional staffers were told the internal review would examine efforts to combat attempts by foreign governments to influence U.S. elections, duties that were assigned to other agency staff, according to the person.
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/election-security-cisa-kristi-noem-cybersecurity-5bac8ce416c46b4fbe44c94ae5874b39
Anybody involved in election security is sent home.
You dont have a job any more..
Lovie777
(22,965 posts)Lawyers making tons of money.
lapfog_1
(31,904 posts)our elections! errr... well uh... maybe not so much.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/bondi-ends-fbi-effort-combat-foreign-influence-us-politics-rcna191012
AdamGG
(1,882 posts)FBI to assist foreigners trying to influence our elections...
Expect nothing less from Kash crazy eyes Patel.
SunSeeker
(58,278 posts)Karasu
(2,003 posts)Hope22
(4,745 posts)We need a crash course on an un redacted Mueller report. That would be a start. Living in a red state that has a very sick and gerrymandered state legislature I have to wonder what will be left of that election system in three and a half years. These people are ruthless, lawless beings. If we cant count the votes there is no hope. In the past we have had election yard signs set on fire and eventually found bullet holes in others. I cant imagine what will happen next time around.
Irish_Dem
(81,252 posts)Reagan cheated to win with the hostage situation, then Bush vs Gore was rigged as well.
Trump was installed both times.
So now it is official. No more free elections.
yellow dahlia
(5,866 posts)They are used to doing it all out in the open now.
Karasu
(2,003 posts)Mike 03
(18,690 posts)and bookmarked.
MissouriDem47
(420 posts)Our institutions are being attacked and destroyed by the Trump Administration. I guess he knew what he was talking about when he told his supporters they would never "have" to vote again.
Botany
(77,316 posts)Musk is not getting into all of our government agencies because of wasteful spending but
to seize the levers of power. Musk is sending in coders for the computers not accountants
or managers to look for waste. This is chilling.
intheflow
(30,178 posts)And DOGE only has read-access.
And I have a bridge to sell you in the Mohave Desert.
orangecrush
(30,247 posts)Evolve Dammit
(21,774 posts)JT45242
(4,043 posts)This smells of old Prince Humperdink's sending "his four fastest ships to look for the man in black"....
They will hire Apartheid Clyde's "top men" to look to see if Clyde put his finger on the scales of the election. What could possibly go wrong?
The parallels to 1930s Germany get stronger every day.
highplainsdem
(62,134 posts)Oopsie Daisy
(6,670 posts)Are they proud of themselves? Still defiant? Still smug?
Seriously... just fuck them all.
Sadly, we're all going to suffer, but I hope they suffer the most.
riversedge
(80,805 posts)Oopsie Daisy
(6,670 posts)It may take some time, but I believe that those people who did such things or who promoted and approved and encouraged such things will be punished in the long run... they'll be replaced (if we're lucky.)
We all saw what happened to Nina Turner as she "fell from grace" for her betrayal. She wasn't a one-off... there will be others who follow her path directly into the deep end of the cesspool. That day can't come soon enough for me.
bluestarone
(22,174 posts)That is our next to last defense. WE will have to be the final defense!!
Bengus81
(10,162 posts)Instead as AG--the TOP COP in the United States he did NOTHING to stop what he and WE knew would come if Trump ever got in the WH again.
FUCK YOU GARLAND!!!!
Wuddles440
(2,094 posts)orangecrush
(30,247 posts)Initech
(108,772 posts)orangecrush
(30,247 posts)Initech
(108,772 posts)Damn this fucking administration. Damn them all to the hottest of hells.
republianmushroom
(22,323 posts)the nelm
(270 posts)was fired after the 2020 election because he wouldn't play along with Trump's farcical claims of the election being stolen. Krebs claimed quite the opposite. The Cybersecurity unit (CISA) was created in 2018 during Trump's first term and Krebs was appointed by the head cheese himself. And the vengeance tour continues.
jalan48
(14,914 posts)That's how to topple a democracy.
Owens
(597 posts)No more fair elections, everything bought and paid for by the oligarchs
MadameButterfly
(4,039 posts)hack the whole system before courts put a stay on this?
How about hand-counted ballots from now on?
riversedge
(80,805 posts)I think the little boys have give Musk more information and private data that we know of.
Hard to tell what Musk has given to Trump.
Bettie
(19,702 posts)there won't be elections anymore.
He'll just be Dictator with Dumbass Donny as his figurehead, while he plays with his toys (us and our fucking lives).
COL Mustard
(8,218 posts)Wed never have to worry about voting again.
twodogsbarking
(18,774 posts)SnoopDog
(2,695 posts)Voter Suppression....
Dem4life1234
(2,533 posts)I hate these people with a passion.
I hate this time period.