INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
SentinelOne updated that post yesterday with copies of the email sent by Krebs and an email from Weingarten to staff
Weingarten's email praised Krebs' work "in service of democratic institutions and critical infrastructure.""I know he'll take on this next
chapter with the same clarity, conviction, and humility that defined his time here, and he carries our full respect with him as his journey
continues," Weingarten wrote.After Trump lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden, Krebs and CISA drew Trump's wrath by actively debunking claims
of election fraud made by Trump and his supporters
On November 17, 2020, Trump called Krebs' statements inaccurate and insisted that "there were massive improprieties and fraud," including
dead people voting and voting machines changing votes from Trump to Biden."Therefore, effective immediately, Chris Krebs has been terminated
as Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency," Trump wrote in a tweet.In last week's presidential memorandum, Trump
ordered the government "to take all appropriate action to review Krebs' activities as a Government employee, including his leadership of
CISA." Trump also ordered "a comprehensive evaluation of all of CISA's activities over the last 6 years, focusing specifically on any
instances where CISA's conduct appears to have been contrary to the purposes and policies identified in Executive Order 14149."The
referenced executive order issued in January 2025 claimed the Biden administration "trampled free speech rights by censoring Americans'
speech on online platforms," by exerting pressure on social media companies
It ordered the government to "identify and take appropriate action to correct past misconduct by the Federal Government related to
censorship of protected speech."Krebs started working for the Department of Homeland Security in 2017 and became the first director of CISA
Last week's Trump memo said that CISA under Krebs' leadership "suppressed conservative viewpoints under the guise of combatting supposed
disinformation" and "covertly worked to blind the American public to the controversy surrounding Hunter Biden's laptop." The forthcoming
investigations of Krebs and CISA's activities will result in "recommendations for appropriate remedial or preventative actions to be taken
to fulfill the purposes and policies of Executive Order 14149," the Trump memo said.
