Atlanta – Employees of the national Cybersecurity agency, our job is to ensure that the US elections have been placed in the administrative permission, to risk critical support for the state and local election offices in the country.
In recent days, 17 employees of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Safety Agency, to provide assessments and training that work with a series of selections. The physical safety of election staff based on cyber and ransom attacks. Opinion, according to a person who does not know the authorized situation in public.
One of the ten of these employees are regional specialists in the regional election effort Before 2024 elections to expand the field staff and election safety specialization. Regional employees would examine the efforts to fight essays for foreign governments, assigned to the US agency staff, according to the person’s obligations.
All were state or local election officials to build relationships with more than 50 states and 8,000 election jurisdictions. The last year spent with election officials, lectures and training, and to ensure officials were the cybersecurity and security services of the agency.
Monday Cisa representative and representative of the homeland security department did not return.
The state of the two political parties have election officials Defend the work of Cisa Election offices to protect from a range of cybersecurity and physical threats.
Kentucky Michael Adams State Secretary, a Republican said the work of the Agency was particularly valuable for the Secretaries of the County County.
“The value we achieved from CISA has been the people who build direct contacts in our state, not only with us but with each county secretary,” Adams said during the interview with the last month. “They teach them and help physical safety and cyber hygiene, and it has been very popular.”
The Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson in Michigan, a Democrat said in an interview with January, was a critical partner for state agencies and local election officials.
“And I will recognize that the federal government leaders claiming to take care of election integrity,” he said.
The remaining workers placed on the leave of the agency are former members of the agency’s election and resilience team, they were looking for agency efforts against disinformation and disinformation campaigns, according to the person who knows the situation. 10 Elections specialists worked with state and local election officials CISA, distribution of operations in the area.
Employee movements have been fucked on the future of the agency, in front of the Republicans and key figures in front of the Trump Administration criticism. President of the Donald Trumper Homeland Security Secretary, Kristi callssaid during the Senate Confirmation audience In the last month, Cisa hit the “remote mission” and committed to working with Senator “if you want to enter.”
Trump has not appointed a substitute for the former director of Cisa Jen EasterAnd the leadership of the agency has been significantly above the latest meetings of national election officials in the national capital.
CISA was accused of protecting the first Trump in 2018 and protect the critical infrastructure of the Nation’s critical administration, dams and nuclear power plants to banks and voting systems. While the CISA is under the homeland security department, the Own Agency is with the director who confirmed the Senate.
Trump and his allies are angry at the work of the agency to deal with the presidential elections and the Covid-19 pandemic to address the disinformation.
Agency officials said it was CIS never engaged censorship. In the 2020 elections, Cisa officials worked with states to help social media companies inform about disinformation on their platforms, but they say they have never ordered or searched these companies.
For 2024 elections, CISA and other federal agencies He warned it to the public To different foreign misinformation campaigns, three false videos related to Russia, to show election players in the states of the battle.
A spokesman at the National Association of State Election Managers said that the Group could not comment on the decisions of Cisa staff and the organization will desire to listen to the agency officials to organize election plans.
Maria Benson, a spokesman with the National Association of Secretary Secretaries, said the team requested an update of CISA. Cisa “said” Nass gave NASS to NASS to be available to state-of-the-art and local election officials. “
