{"id":166,"date":"2025-05-31T01:30:06","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T01:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/?p=166"},"modified":"2025-05-31T01:30:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T01:30:06","slug":"treason-trump-orders-probes-into-former-staffers-who-led-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/?p=166","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Treason\u2019: Trump Orders Probes Into Former Staffers Who Led \u2018Resistance\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

President Donald Trump revoked the security clearances of former CISA Director Chris Krebs and former DHS official Miles Taylor, while also ordering<\/a> investigations into their work during his first term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As part of a series of executive orders and directives signed in the Oval Office, Trump issued a Presidential Memorandum concerning Krebs, stating that it \u201caddresses his access to existing government clearances.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

White House staff secretary Will Scharf explained that the memorandum instructs the Department of Justice (DOJ) and \u201cother aspects\u201d of the federal government \u201cto investigate some of the malign acts\u201d Krebs may have participated in while serving as CISA director.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is a man who weaponized his position against free speech in the election context, in the context of COVID-19,\u201d Scharf said. \u201cThis is another, similar Presidential Memorandum to the one you just signed. It addresses his access to government existing clearances he might have, and further instructs your Department of Justice, other aspects of your government, to investigate some of the malign acts that he participated in while he was still head of CISA.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Krebs became a controversial figure after the 2020 presidential election when he dismissed allegations of fraud and irregularities, insisting that the election was \u201cthe most secure in American history,\u201d despite widespread calls for a thorough investigation after a number of anomalies were identified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ultimately, Trump fired him for publicly downplaying the concerns surrounding the election. The president described the dismissal as a critical step toward restoring accountability in the federal government, denouncing Krebs as a \u201cfraud\u201d and a \u201cdisgrace.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know that I met him. I\u2019m sure I met him, but I didn\u2019t know him, and he came out right after the election \u2014 which was a rigged election, a badly rigged election. We did phenomenally in that election,\u201d the president said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A fact sheet<\/a> issued by the White House explained that the Presidential Memorandum \u201cdirects the head of every federal agency to immediately revoke any active security clearance held by Krebs.\u201d In addition, agencies were also directed to suspend \u201cany active security clearance held by individuals and entities associated with Krebs, including SentinelOne, pending a review of whether such clearances are consistent with national interest.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The order also directs the DOJ to investigate Krebs and Taylor, the latter of whom had publicly boasted about leading \u201cthe resistance\u201d during the president\u2019s first term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Taylor, the order specifically mentions any security clearances granted to individuals at the University of Pennsylvania, where Taylor is a lecturer, \u201cpending a review of whether such clearances align with the national interest.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2018, a New York Times op-ed by an \u201canonymous\u201d \u201csenior administration official\u201d accused the Trump administration of misconduct and claimed to be actively working to undermine the president\u2019s agenda from within. The author was later revealed in 2020 to be Taylor, who became a political analyst for CNN after leaving the administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think he\u2019s guilty of treason if you want to know the truth,\u201d Trump said as he signed the order pertaining to Taylor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regarding election security, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard revealed during a Cabinet meeting at the White House on Thursday that U.S. intelligence agencies have \u201cevidence\u201d that electronic voting systems are not secure and can be hacked to \u201cmanipulate\u201d the results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got a long list of things that we\u2019re investigating. We have the best of the best going after this. Election integrity being one of them. We have evidence of how these electronic voting systems have been vulnerable to hackers for a very long time and vulnerable to exploitation to manipulate the results of the votes being cast,\u201d Gabbard said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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