By Tim Pearce. Media: DailyWire.com
President Donald Trump targeted a pair of former administration officials from his first term in office for investigations by the Department of Justice.
The president signed two executive actions on Wednesday ordering probes into the conduct of Miles Taylor, a former senior Department of Homeland Security official, and Chris Krebs, the former head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). The memos also strip Taylor, Krebs, and others of security clearances.
Taylor gained fame in the media after revealing himself in public as the author of an anonymous op-ed in The New York Times in which he claimed to be part of the “resistance” to Trump inside the administration. He later authored a book titled “Anonymous” about his time in the Trump administration.
“Miles Taylor was entrusted with the solemn responsibility of Federal service, but instead prioritized his own ambition, personal notoriety, and monetary gain over fidelity to his constitutional oath,” Trump’s White House memo states.
“While serving as an administrative staff assistant at the Department of Homeland Security, Taylor stoked dissension by manufacturing sensationalist reports on the existence of a supposed ‘resistance’ within the Federal Government that ‘vowed’ to undermine and render ineffective a sitting President,” it said. “He illegally published classified conversations to sell his book under the pseudonym ‘Anonymous,’ which is full of falsehoods and fabricated stories.”
After the memo was released, Taylor said in a post on X that the United States was “headed down a dark path.”
“I said this would happen. Dissent isn’t unlawful. It certainly isn’t treasonous. America is headed down a dark path,” Taylor wrote. “Never has a man so inelegantly proved another man’s point.”
Krebs was in charge of cybersecurity in the first Trump administration and also led on election security. Trump fired Krebs after the cyber chief said in a statement on 2020 election fraud claims that “in every case of which we are aware, these claims either have been unsubstantiated or are technically incoherent,” according to Politico.
Krebs also spearheaded a joint statement by CISA and other groups that called the 2020 election the “most secure in American history” and dismissed what the statement referred to as the “many unfounded claims and opportunities for misinformation about the process of our elections.”
Krebs “is a significant bad-faith actor who weaponized and abused his Government authority,” Trump’s memo says. “Krebs’ misconduct involved the censorship of disfavored speech implicating the 2020 election and COVID-19 pandemic.”
While heading CISA, Krebs “suppressed conservative viewpoints,” “worked to blind the American public to the controversy surrounding Hunter Biden’s laptop,” and “promoted the censorship of election information,” the order states.
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