Trump administration officials said Thursday that Chris Krebs, who discredited the lies of President Trump about the 2020 elections as head of the Federal Cybersecurity Agency, lost his membership in a customs program issued for travelers.
The officials denied specific why Mr. Krebs was under investigation, nor indicated which agencies were carrying out the investigation. The dissemination occurred three weeks after Trump, in a law of settlement and intimidation of score, ordered the Department of Justice to investigate Mr. Krebs.
“Chris Krebs is under active investigation by the agencies of application of the law,” said a spokesman for the National Security Department in a statement. “That is a fact that disqualifies it for global entry.”
The department offered no more explanation on the investigation of Mr. Krebs, who was appointed to lead the Security and Cyber -Infrastructure Security Agency for Mr. Trump in 2018. He asked about the suspension of the state of the global entry travel program of Mr. Krebs, a White House official provided a similar statement, not offering other details. The official did not answer a follow -up question.
It is unusual for an agency to apply the government law confirm or deny an open investigation. Trump has cited infractions or comparable protocol to accuse the police of trying to stain their duration of investigations in their conduct.
The global entry program, administered by Customs and the US border protection, a division of the National Security Department, allows low -risk travelers who have approved an authorization process to avoid detection of detection at airports.
Krebs was fired after the 2020 elections when he withdrew the statements without the foundation of Trump’s allies that the government’s super computers had secretly changed Mr. Trump to Mr. Biden. He later created a website to verify the accusations of Trump’s allies.
“The November 3 elections were the safest in American history,” said Mr. Krebs, along with state electoral officials, in a statement published on the website of the Cyber Security Agency shortly before being fired.
“There is no evidence that no voting system eliminated or lost votes, changed votes or was compromised in any way.”
The orientation of Mr. Krebs is the last in a flood of administrative actions aimed at punishing, embarrassing, threatening and inconvenient the perceived adversaries of Mr. Trump, in the case of Mr. Krebs, a respected public servant who offered an objective concealer to his manufactures.
Mr. Krebs received an email on Wednesday warning him that his status in the global entrance program had changed, which led him to log in to his account.
Even if Mr. Krebs is never accused, much less convicted, or any crime, accusations require that he spend time and resources defend. A week after Mr. Trump’s directive, Mr. Krebs resigned from the cybersecurity firm to which he had joined to focus on the fight against research.
A spokesman for the Department of Justice did not respond to a request for comments. Mr. Krebs did not comment.
In a memorandum, Mr. Trump signed on April 9, accused Mr. Krebs, a widely respected cyber security executive, or Bee “a significant actor of bad faith that armed and abused” his authority as a government official.
Among his alleged list of misdeeds in the memorandum were “the censorship of the unfavorable discourse that implies the 2020 elections” and the suppression of the “conservative points of view under the appearance of combating the alleged misinformation.”
Mr. Krebs was also stripped of his security authorization.
Since he took the presidency for the second time, Trump has been systematically working through compensation objectives, especially law firms with which he has issued or threatened to issue executive orders.
The directive related to Mr. Krebs was the first time since the position on duty again that Trump had publicly ordered investigations on people. Miles Taylor, an official of the National Security Department at the First Trump administration who has been deeply critical of Trump, was also pointed out.