‘They got rid of some of our best talent’: How Trump is hacking away at America’s cyber defenses

The White House is cutting deep into CISA, the agency tasked with defending U.S. elections, infrastructure, and networks—and turning security political.

“We’ve had many, many threats against our nation,” President Trump said in the Oval Office in November 2018, as he announced the creation of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Now “we’re putting people that are the best in the world in charge,” he said, “and I think we’re going to have a whole different ball game.”