{"id":2558,"date":"2020-11-18T05:43:58","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T05:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/?p=2558"},"modified":"2021-10-11T08:00:25","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T15:00:25","slug":"who-is-chris-krebs-why-did-trump-fire-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/who-is-chris-krebs-why-did-trump-fire-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Chris Krebs and why did Trump run him?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/sd-1024x514.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/sd-1024x514.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/sd-300x151.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/sd-768x386.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/sd-16x8.jpg 16w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/sd-450x226.jpg 450w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/sd-780x392.jpg 780w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/author\/cristiancarlos\/\">Christian Carlos<\/a>. Peninsula 360 Press [P360P].<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>This Tuesday, Trump, again on his Twitter account reported that \"the statements made by Chris Krebs were inaccurate\", such statements would have been the reason for his dismissal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1328852354049957888?s=20\n<\/div><figcaption>\u26a0\ufe0f These tweets have been moderated by Twitter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Until Tuesday, Christopher C. Krebs served as director of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA). This agency was created by President Donald Trump in February 2018 and is based in Arlington, Virginia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So far this public position remains vacant. <strong>Krebs regretted his termination of his duties via Twitter after Trump's announcement.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Honored to serve. We did it right. Defend Today, Secure Tomrorow. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Protect2020?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Protect2020<\/a><\/p>- Chris Krebs (@C_C_Krebs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/C_C_Krebs\/status\/1328859222071783424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 18, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And that is, according to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cisa.gov\/news\/2020\/11\/12\/joint-statement-elections-infrastructure-government-coordinating-council-election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the agency's newsletter<\/a>&nbsp;by Krebs established on Thursday, November 12 that: <strong>\"There is no evidence that any voting system has ever deleted or lost votes, changed votes or been compromised in any way.<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is understood that the statements made by Krebs about the election process were the reason why Trump fired the cyber security expert. <strong>Trump, for his part, continues to spread <a href=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/technology\/stop-the-chronicle-counting-of-a-an-announced-defeat-on-twitter\/\">the fake speech<\/a> that there was some kind of fraud in the last election<\/strong> where President-elect Joe Biden won.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Krebs, 44, is a former Microsoft company executive who has served as Director of Cybersecurity Policy and has advised the private sector and federal, state and local governments on cybersecurity and risk management issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, Krebs, despite taking office as director of CISA in 2018, since March 2017, has been a senior advisor to the Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for Infrastructure Protection where he addressed issues of cybersecurity, critical infrastructure and national resilience, according to the U.S. government agency's website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cybersecurity expert holds a bachelor's degree in environmental science from the University of Virginia and a juris doctorate from the Antonin Scalia School of Law at George Mason University.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cristian Carlos. Pen\u00ednsula 360 Press [P360P]. Este martes, Trump, de nuevo en su cuenta de Twitter inform\u00f3 que \u00ablas declaraciones hechas por Chris Krebs eran imprecisas\u00bb, dichas declaraciones habr\u00edan sido el motivo de su despido. Hasta este martes, Christopher C. Krebs se desempe\u00f1\u00f3 como director de la Agencia Ciberseguridad e Infraestructura \u2013CISA, por sus siglas [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14,10],"tags":[273],"class_list":{"0":"post-2558","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"category-cover","9":"category-politics","10":"tag-ccj"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2558"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7546,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2558\/revisions\/7546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}