> Krebs, through CISA, falsely and baselessly denied that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen, including by inappropriately and categorically dismissing widespread election malfeasance and serious vulnerabilities with voting machines.

Being purged is one thing, but being purged by bumbling morons must bring another level of ire.

As an outside observer, the difference between the current US administration and the CCP is becoming smaller every day. What's the point of having actual domain expertise when the primary selection criteria is partisan support of the current party in power? It's policital appointees throughout the apparatus of government, top to bottom. The USA is surrendering any pretense of higher moral superiority at a frightening rate.

In my previous discussions here, many people have claimed that US is better than China specifically because there is rule of law and freedom of speech even if the overall quality of life is worse here.

Now, it seems there is no freedom of speech or rule of law and we are screwed on quality of life anyways.

I still see many people here who, even now, still do not grasp that the country they're living in, on the government level, has joined the group of "China and Russia". It is no longer "China and Russia's imperialist authoritarianism are a danger to democracy across the globe, and we need to decouple from them.". It is now "China, Russia's, and the USA are a danger to democracy across the globe, and we need to decouple from them". For the first time in more than a century, we now have all of the geopolitical superpowers (of which there are currently 3), have very similar governments, based on a single paramount leader who holds in effect complete power and demands unconditional fealty from every single person in a position of power, subject to career-ending or soon much worse punishment. Not just to them, but to anyone in their vicinity, e.g. family or colleagues, to strike proper fear into them. See: non-Krebs SentinelOne employees having their security clearances revoked.

Let's take a look at this whitehouse.gov statement from the US.

> Yet in recent years, elitist leaders in Government have unlawfully censored speech and weaponized their undeserved influence to silence perceived political opponents and advance their preferred

For those desensitized, replace "elitist" in that sentence by "reactionary", "capitalist", "anti-revolutionist" or "intellectual", and re-read.

The earlier everyone faces the reality, the quicker something can be done about it. I propose at the very least, everyone starts saying "the USA" instead of "the US government" when talking about these topics, in line with how the overwhelming majority of the time, the actions of the Russian and Chinese governments are simply denoted by "Russia" and "China".

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/addr...

> Promoted the censorship of election information, including known risks associated with certain voting practices, and falsely and baselessly denied that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen, including by inappropriately and categorically dismissing widespread election malfeasance and serious vulnerabilities with voting machines.

Mike Pillow medal of freedom when?

First rule of security journalism - if the feds call you out by name, it's usually because you're right.

Chris Krebs' key offense: "falsely and baselessly denied that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen".

Trump has asked the Department of Justice to investigate him [1]. Trump is actively weaponizing the DOJ... while saying he is ending the weaponization of Federal Government.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/09/trump-justic...

Elsewhere in the press:

The Register: Trump kills clearances for infosec's SentinelOne, ex-CISA boss Chris Krebs https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/10/trump_cisa_investigat...

CyberScoop: Trump signs order stripping Chris Krebs of security clearance https://cyberscoop.com/trump-chris-krebs-executive-order-202...

NB- not the same as Brian Krebs of KrebsOnSecurity.com.

See also: “Trump signs order targeting law firm behind $787.5m Fox defamation suit”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/09/trump-execut...

Trump is obsessed with punishing anyone who went against his “stolen election” narrative.