The firing of federal bureaucrats from an agency a congressional panel accused of engaging in a broad censorship effort may be too light a punishment, says the former No. 2 at the Department of Homeland Security.
The Trump administration slashed the workforces of several agencies last week, including the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, known as the CISA, by about 130 employees after accusations of censorship and election meddling there.
Meanwhile, the DHS is pausing election activities for the CISA , pending a review of the agency, The Associated Press reported.
The CISA was established in 2018 under the first Trump administration’s DHS and was originally intended to protect oil and natural gas pipelines and other critical infrastructure from cyberattacks. But agency bureaucrats quickly expanded the mission to elections. A congressional…
