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White House Eliminates Top Cyber Job That Focused on Election Security
John Bolton is the mentally imbalanced new national security adviser to Trump. Stupid leading the stupid or blind leading the blind. We detailed Bolton is great depth HERE. Bolton is, of course, up to no good.
The Trump administration has eliminated the White House’s top cyber policy role, jettisoning a key position created during the Obama presidency to harmonize the government's overall approach to cybersecurity policy and digital warfare.
Bolton.... cut the cyber coordinator role, in a move that many experts and former government officials criticized as a major step backward for federal cybersecurity policy.
“The role of cyber coordinator will end,” Christine Samuelian, an aide to Bolton, wrote in the email to NSC employees.
The cyber coordinator led a team of directors and senior directors who worked with agencies to develop a unified strategy for issues like election security and digital deterrence.
“I don’t see how getting rid of the top cyber official in the White House does anything to make our country safer from cyber threats,” Senate Intelligence ranking member Mark Warner (D-Va.) said last week.
Rob Joyce, Trump’s first coordinator, who came from the NSA, left the White House on Friday and will return to Fort Meade. Cyber policy experts, lawmakers and former officials had urged Trump to replace Joyce and not to abolish the position.
Meanwhile, House Democrats unveiled a bill on May 16th to create a new White House cyber office led by a Senate-confirmed director. That bill can be reviewed at the PDF link below.
Sources:
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/15/white-house-eliminates-cyber-adviser-post-542916