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readability=\"29.228948816731\"><body readability=\"59.506930693069\"><\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/fact-sheets\/2025\/04\/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-addresses-risks-from-chris-krebs-and-government-censorship\/\">signed a memorandum Wednesday<\/a> revoking the security clearance of former CISA leader Chris Krebs, with the White House saying he was a \u201csignificant bad-faith actor who weaponized and abused his government authority\u201d during his time leading the agency. <\/p>\n<p>The order also suspends any active security clearance held by employees at SentinelOne, where Krebs is currently employed as the company\u2019s chief intelligence and public policy officer, and called for a review of Krebs\u2019 actions as a government employee.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/trump-chris-krebs-2020-election-security-twitter\/\">Trump dismissed Krebs<\/a>, a highly esteemed Department of Homeland Security official, in November 2020 after what he viewed as actions not sufficiently loyal to the president. Krebs had played a key role in protecting the 2020 election from hacking and misinformation, consistently debunking baseless claims of widespread electoral fraud made by Trump and his allies, typically avoiding direct reference to the president. <\/p>\n<p>A \u201crumor control\u201d website managed by CISA during the 2020 election, which addressed conspiracy theories about stolen votes and votes cast by deceased individuals, reportedly caused significant displeasure within the White House.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The order makes further claims that Krebs, through CISA, purportedly suppressed conservative viewpoints under the characterization of \u201ccombatting misinformation,\u201d while allegedly recruiting social media platforms to advance what the White House calls a \u201cpartisan agenda.\u201d It also claims Krebs promoted censorship of election information and incorrectly dismissed concerns about election integrity and voting machine vulnerabilities. <\/p>\n<p>Both Krebs and SentinelOne did not respond to CyberScoop\u2019s request for comment. <\/p>\n<p>Founded in 2013, SentinelOne bills itself as the \u201cworld\u2019s most advanced, autonomous AI-powered cybersecurity platform.\u201d The company has a significant presence in the federal marketplace. <\/p>\n<p>Last July, it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sentinelone.com\/press\/sentinelone-partners-with-cisa-to-enable-government-wide-cyber-defense\/\">announced a partnership with CISA<\/a> for the agency\u2019s Continuous Diagnostics and Monitoring (CDM) program. In September, it announced that its Singularity Platform and Singularity Data Lake products earned FedRAMP high status, a designation that indicates the company met stringent security requirements necessary to store, process, and transmit sensitive government data.<\/p>\n<p>Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/fact-sheets\/2025\/04\/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-addresses-risks-associated-with-miles-taylor\/\">also suspended the security clearance<\/a> of former DHS staffer Miles Taylor, who authored a New York Times\u2019 op-ed and book under the pen name \u201cAnonymous,\u201d that criticized the president during his first term.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/fact-sheets\/2025\/04\/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-addresses-risks-from-susman-godfrey\/\">Another order<\/a> suspended security clearances held by individuals at Susman Godfrey, a law firm that represented Dominion Voting Systems in a defamation lawsuit against Fox News. Lawyers for Susman Godfrey <a href=\"https:\/\/www.susmangodfrey.com\/wins\/fox-news-to-pay-787-5-million-to-settle-defamations-claims-brought-by-susman-godfrey-client-dominion-voting-systems\/\">reached a $787.5 million settlement<\/a> after Fox News and its commentators repeatedly stated that Dominion\u2019s voting machines were at the center of a vast conspiracy in the 2020 election to steal votes from President Donald Trump and swing them to his Democratic challenger Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p> <\/body> <\/p>\n<footer class=\"single-article__footer\" readability=\"3.7985074626866\">\n<div class=\"author-card\" readability=\"14\">\n<div class=\"author-card__avatar\">\n<figure class=\"author-card__image-wrap\"> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-card__image\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/trump-signs-order-stripping-chris-krebs-of-security-clearance-1.jpg?w=640&ssl=1\" alt=\"Greg Otto\"> <\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><h4 class=\"author-card__name\">Written by Greg Otto<\/h4>\n<p> Greg Otto is Editor-in-Chief of CyberScoop, overseeing all editorial content for the website. 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