Krebs' deputy (the #2 at CISA) Matt Travis has also been fired

[MelissaB]

Per @snlyngaas, Krebs' deputy (the #2 at CISA) Matt Travis has also been fired.

Link to tweet

[Dem2]

1. Tossing a fit like an immature child is now the Republican way?

Bizarre.

[dchill]

2. How many jobs is Ratcliff going to be able to do...

...at the same time?

[Renew Deal]

3. The problem with this is it's bad for the country.

It's not like firing some cabinet officer.

[kacekwl]

4. Hopefully these people who have done the right thing

can be hired by the Biden administration.

[Cha]

7. Exactly what I've posted..

Link to tweet

[SheltieLover]

18. Hoping he speaks out publicly immediately

About the shitshow behind the scenes, as much as he is able.

Aloha, Cha.

[Cha]

20. Yeah, that'd be Nice!

Aloha, Sheltie,

[UTUSN]

5. The numbers of fired for opposing UNpresident is almost encouraging that

there were some with bits of integrity, although negated by their having joined the UNpresident's mob in the first [lace.

[Cha]

6. Hope Biden gives them back their jobs

if they're worthy of them.

I know I like what Chris Krebs tweeted about it..

Link to tweet

TY!

[LuvLoogie]

8. I'm too cynical, Cha. Was Krebs a trump hire,

or was he already in place? Was he tossed out like a boomerang on the chance he would return to Washington to do more damage?

[Cha]

9. No idea, Luv.. that's why I said

"if they're worthy".

Can't tell from just this info. They stuck it to the Useless Orange Blob, though.. so Credit for that!!

[LuvLoogie]

12. Huzzah!

[Cha]

15. yeah!

[helpisontheway]

10. Trump hired him. Nt

[helpisontheway]

11. Brian Williams said that on his show. Nt

[Renew Deal]

13. Krebs is no Trump flunkie

And antagonizing a bunch of hackers seems like a bad idea.

[Generic Brad]

14. Does this make the GA senate races vulnerable?

We’re they protecting that vote?

[SheltieLover]

19. Good question!

[crickets]

16. Krebs saw this coming.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/12/cyber-official-chris-krebs-likely-out-436342

Krebs, who has led CISA and its predecessor DHS division since early 2017, had been planning to leave his position and return to the private sector shortly after Biden took office. But he had hoped to stay on in the short term to help the Biden transition team and see the new administration into its first few months, the people familiar with his thinking said.

They said Krebs had expressed a hope to people close to him that Ware might take over in the event he were forced out.

Matthew Travis, CISA's deputy director, is a political appointee who is also subject to White House removal. Another person whose job may be in jeopardy is Matthew Masterson, CISA's lead election security staffer. Masterson, whom state and local election officials widely credit with helping to build a robust election security partnership, is also a political appointee whom the White House can order fired if it chooses to do so.

But CISA's third-ranking official, executive director Brandon Wales, is a career civil servant who cannot be fired except with cause.

"Krebs created the Executive Director position as the highest career employee to aid any transition in the absence of political leadership, like if Travis and Krebs were both to leave," said a U.S. official, who spoke anonymously because of the sensitivity of the situation.

"Some [at] CISA are probably worried," the official said of Krebs' potential firing, "but there has been a transition plan in place."

[moondust]

17. More revenge?

Some speculated when Dump fired Esper that it was revenge for DOD Cyber Command's success in preventing foreign election interference (that Dump desperately needed). The Krebs and Travis firings may be more of that kind of "revenge for success."