Trump kills clearances for infosec's SentinelOne, ex-CISA boss Chris Krebs

The Trump administration on Wednesday ordered a criminal investigation into alleged censorship conducted by the USA’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, aka CISA, plus revocation of any security clearances held by the agency's ex-head Chris Krebs and anyone else at SentinelOne, the cybersecurity company where he now works.

Krebs was fired by Trump in 2020 after the CISA boss indicated, correctly, the 2020 election was won by Joe Biden fair and square without any outside interference, and that Trump lost.

The White House outlined its crackdown this week on Krebs in a presidential memorandum that accused him of using CISA to pursue a “partisan mission” that saw him direct the agency to work with social media companies to censor “disfavored speech” online on matters such as the contents of a laptop belonging to Biden's son Hunter that allegedly containing evidence of corruption and proof that “the 2020 ...