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Christopher Krebs, who led the federal government’s election cybersecurity efforts, has been fired by President Donald Trump via Twitter.
Krebs, the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, or CISA, has been the target of public criticism from Trump since the November 3 election over his agency’s rumor control blog which rebuts a list of false claims about election fraud and hacking , many of which Trump or his lawyers have touted as real after he lost the election.
In response to this act Krebs told NBC News on Tuesday night after the firing, he said:”I’m proud of the work we did at CISA,” We did it right.”
A source with knowledge of the firing said that Krebs found out about it via Twitter and that it was upsetting for him because he took the work seriously.
Several sources close to Krebs said in recent days that it was a matter of “when, not if,” Krebs would be fired.
“He’s been on death watch,” said a person close to Krebs.
