United States President, Donald Trump has fired Christopher
Krebs, head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).
The senior Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official
led the efforts to protect the voting process for the November 3 election.
On Tuesday, Krebs in a tweet refuted allegations that
election systems were manipulated.
“59 election security experts all agree, ‘in every case of
which we are aware, these claims either have been unsubstantiated or are
technically incoherent'”, he wrote.
In his reaction, Trump faulted Krebs position which clearly
debunked his insistence that irregularities were perpetrated in Joe Biden’s
favour.
The American leader maintains the former Vice President did
not win, and that he will prove it.
“The recent statement by Chris Krebs on the security of the
2020 Election was highly inaccurate, in that there were massive improprieties
and fraud — including dead people voting, Poll Watchers not allowed into
polling locations, ‘glitches’ in the voting machines which changed votes from
Trump to Biden, late voting, and many more.
“Therefore, effective immediately, Chris Krebs has been
terminated as Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security
Agency.”, he tweeted
According to Washington Post, acting DHS Secretary, Chad
Wolf told Krebs’s deputy, Matthew Travis that the White House had overruled
CISA’s succession plan that named him acting director, essentially forcing him
to resign.
Responding, DHS spokesman, Alexei Woltornist said the
presidency had not asked him to resign.
Recall that CISA and the Election Infrastructure Government
Coordinating Council Executive Committee (GCC) refuted claims that the poll was
rigged.
In a joint statement, the DHS agencies declared there is no
concrete proof of compromise.
CISA and GCC noted that there is no evidence that any voting
system deleted, lost, or changed votes.
They said states with close results have paper records of
each vote, allowing the ability to go back and count each ballot if necessary.
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