Trump Orders DOJ Investigations Into Miles Taylor, Chris Krebs | EUROtoday

President Donald Trump ordered the Department of Justice to research two former officers from his first administration, together with one whom he accused of being “guilty of treason.”

Trump, in a memorandum signed within the Oval Office, ripped ex-Homeland Security official Miles Taylor for writings Taylor made below an “anonymous” pseudonym, which notably embody a extremely crucial 2018 op-ed in The New York Times the place he described himself as a part of the “resistance” to the president.

“His conduct could properly be characterized as treasonous and as possibly violating the Espionage Act,” learn the memo, which stripped safety clearances from Taylor and known as on the DOJ to probe his work within the federal authorities.

Taylor later took to X, previously Twitter, the place he declared that “dissent isn’t unlawful” and it “certainly isn’t treasonous.”

“America is headed down a dark path. Never has a man so inelegantly proved another man’s point,” wrote Taylor, who served as chief of workers to Trump’s former DHS secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.

Taylor, who Trump claimed he “barely” remembered on Wednesday, joins an inventory of these focused on the president’s revenge tour towards his political adversaries — a few of whom have additionally been stripped of their safety particulars.

A separate memo signed by Trump describes Chris Krebs — former head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency who was fired after he pushed back at the president’s bogus claims of 2020 election fraud — as a “significant bad-faith actor” and requires a overview into his governmental work, as nicely.

Trump, whereas signing the memo that revoked Krebs’ safety clearance, referred to his former prime cybersecurity official as a “wise guy” and a “disgrace” whereas doubling down on his false election claims.

Krebs took to X on Wednesday the place he reshared a put up he made in November 2020, “Honored to serve. We did it right. Defend Today, Secure Tomrorow. #Protect2020.”

The order additionally suspends energetic safety clearances for workers on the cybersecurity firm SentinelOne, the place Krebs now serves because the chief intelligence and public coverage officer.

A spokesperson for SentinelOne informed HuffPost that the corporate “will actively cooperate in any review of security clearances held by any of our personnel,” a quantity that’s at the moment lower than 10 of its roughly 2,300 staff.

“Accordingly, we do not expect this to materially impact our business in any way,” learn the assertion, which pressured that the White House is a “crucial collaborator” within the firm’s mission to “defend customers, enterprises, and governments against cyber threats.”

Tim Miller, an ex-spokesperson for the Republican National Committee and writer-at-large for the anti-Trump conservative web site The Bulwark, referred to the president’s remarks on Krebs as “madness.”

“Chris Krebs was a public servant, a GOP appointee, who *did his job* ensuring the 2020 election was secure. For our government to target him like this is appalling & Stalinesque,” Miller wrote on X.

“Any person who reveres our constitutional republic should speak out against it.”