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"Last week we covered how Trump’s immigration theater was pulling federal
agents off child sex crimes, drug interdiction, and terrorism investigations to
chase landscapers and line cooks instead. Turns out that was just the tip of
the iceberg. Now we’re learning the administration is also pulling hundreds of
cybersecurity professionals away from defending America’s critical
infrastructure so they can help process deportation paperwork.
The latest reporting from
Nextgov reveals the scope of this bureaucratic
insanity:
Employees across various units of the Department of Homeland Security have
been marked for reassignments to agencies focused on Trump-era border
security and deportation work, and could be dismissed if they don’t comply,
according to multiple people familiar with the matter and a copy of one
notice viewed by Nextgov/FCW.
In recent weeks, hundreds of DHS employees have been directed to transfer to
agencies like Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Federal Protective
Service and Customs and Border Protection — the main units overseeing much
of President Donald Trump’s immigration and deportation efforts.
The people being reassigned include staff from the Cybersecurity and
Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the very federal agency, created during
the first Trump administration, responsible for coordinating cybersecurity
across federal agencies and helping protect America’s critical infrastructure
from cyberattacks. This includes issuing emergency directives when
vulnerabilities are discovered, coordinating incident response when breaches
occur, and working with private sector operators of power grids, water systems,
and financial networks—you know, the stuff that might actually matter for
“national security.”"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
