Infrastructure and cybersecurity agency has froze all its election work and is considering everything it has done to. Help state and local officials to ensure their elections Over the past eight years, Wired has learned. This move represents the first major examples of the country's defensive agency to adjust the mistakes of President Trump's online election and censorship fraud.
In a memorandum sent on Friday for all CISA employees and Wired, acting director of CISA, Bridget Bean, said she had ordered a review and evaluation of every position at the muscle. Related to election security and Against the deviation and no informationLike all products, activities, services and programs (MIS-, DIS-and Malinformation) assign The election system is an important infrastructure in 2017.
CISA CISA will suspend all election security activities until this assessment is completed, Mr. Bean Bean added. This agency is also cutting funding for these activities at Center to share and analyze the election infrastructure informationA group sponsored by the Ministry of Security has served as a coordination agency for the election community.
In his memorandum, Bean confirmed that CISA was Politico's first reportThe original staff was identified as associated with election security activities and MDM programs, leave on February 7.
It is necessary to rescue the agency's election security activities to ensure that CISA is completely focused on the performance of her physical and network security tasks, she told the staff in the memorandum.
While Bean is temporarily top CISA, she is officially the executive director of the agency, its leading career position. The first director of CISA Create an executive role-director To provide continuously during political transformation. Previously, Bean was a person who was appointed Trump At the Federal Emergency Agency In his first term.
When justifying the internal assessment of CISA, it will end on March 6, Bean pointed out January 20 Executive Order of Trump At the end of the federal censorship. Conservative faction argued That CISA censored their speech by coordinating with technology companies to identify false information online by 2020, in the final year of Trump's first term. CISA has refused to conduct censorship of any censorship, and the US Supreme Court reject a lawsuit About the government's work. But after a backlash, Cisa Pause most conversations With technological platforms about online information.
CISA and DHS did not immediately respond to comments.
Since 2017, state and local election officials have been based on CISA's expertise and resources, as well as partnerships with other agencies to improve their physical and digital security and digital security. . Through the on -site consultation and online guidance, CISA has helped the election administrators ensure infrastructure voting against hackers and harden voting places against the active shooting games. And create a voting reserve plan to deal with the shortage of voting or power outages.
Election supervisors have always struggled to overcome serious funding challenges, but in recent years, their work has become more tense when the strong voter supervision has given way to give harass And even Death threats. Election officials of both sides have repeatedly praised CISA for the political support of their work, saying that the recommendations of the agency and free security services are very important in urging. push their own efforts.