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"The Trump administration swept away nearly all of the government’s election-related cyberdefenses beyond the N.S.A. command centers at Fort Meade. At the same time, the administration has shrunk much of the nation’s complex early-warning system for cyberattacks, a web through which tech firms work with the F.B.I. and intelligence agencies to protect the power grid, pipelines and telecommunications networks":
nytimes.com/2025/04/05/us/poli
#PutinsPuppet #NationalSecurity #politics

The National Security Agency campus in Fort Meade, Md., in 2020. President Trump fired the head of the agency on Thursday, after weeks in which he has taken other steps weakening the country’s cyberdefenses.
The New York Times · Trump’s National Security Firings Come as He Weakens U.S. CyberdefensesBy David E. Sanger

The Commanding Officer who Trump fired, General Timothy Haugh, "sat atop the infrastructure of American cyber-defenses." Because he was "deeply involved in pushing back on Russia, dating to his work countering Moscow’s interference in the 2016 election" it is no surprise that he was fired by #PutinsPuppet Donald Trump:
nytimes.com/2025/04/05/us/poli #NationalSecurity #politics

The National Security Agency campus in Fort Meade, Md., in 2020. President Trump fired the head of the agency on Thursday, after weeks in which he has taken other steps weakening the country’s cyberdefenses.
The New York Times · Trump’s National Security Firings Come as He Weakens U.S. CyberdefensesBy David E. Sanger