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Chris Krebs
Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
President	Donald Trump
Preceded by	George Foresman (Under Secretary of Homeland Security for National Protection and Programs)
Succeeded by	TBD
Personal details
Born	1976 or 1977 (age 47–48)
Education	University of Virginia (BS) George Mason University (JD)
*The position was known as Under Secretary of Homeland Security for National Protection and Programs until November 15, 2018.

Christopher C. Krebs is an American attorney who served as the Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency in the United States Department of Homeland Security, from November 2018 until President Donald Trump terminated his employment on November 17, 2020.

Education

Krebs earned a bachelor's degree in environmental sciences from the University of Virginia, and a Juris Doctor from the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University.

Career

His career focused on cybersecurity and risk management issues: he served as Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for Infrastructure Protection, and later worked in the private sector as Director for Cybersecurity Policy for Microsoft.

In March 2017, he became Senior Counselor to the Secretary of Homeland Security. In August 2017, he was appointed Assistant Secretary for Infrastructure Protection, and performed the duties of the Under Secretary of Homeland Security for National Protection and Programs until he was confirmed to that position on a permanent basis on June 15, 2018. In November 2018, the National Protection and Programs Directorate was replaced by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and Krebs remained as director of the agency.

It was reported that Krebs was being considered to serve as Acting Secretary of Homeland Security after the departure of Kevin McAleenan, although he was reported to be uninterested in the position.

On November 12, 2020, it was reported that Krebs expected to be fired from his position, in part due to his role in creating a CISA website to debunk election-related disinformation, some of which was being promoted by President Trump and his allies. Sidney Powell, an attorney for Trump and Michael Flynn, asserted on the Lou Dobbs and Maria Bartiromo Fox News programs that a secret government supercomputer program had switched votes from Trump to Biden in the election, a claim Krebs dismissed as "nonsense" and a "hoax."

On November 17, Krebs said in a tweet that "59 election security experts all agree, 'in every case of which we are aware, these claims (of fraud) either have been unsubstantiated or are technically incoherent.'" President Donald Trump fired Krebs via Twitter the same day. Trump declared in the tweet that he was firing Krebs because "The recent statement by Chris Krebs on the security of the 2020 Election was highly inaccurate, in that there were massive improprieties and fraud."

References

1. Sanger, David E.; Perlroth, Nicole (November 13, 2020). "Christopher Krebs Hasn't Been Fired, Yet". The New York Times. Archived from the original on November 18, 2020. Retrieved November 17, 2020.
2. Macias, Amanda (November 18, 2020). "Trump says DHS cybersecurity chief Chris Krebs has been terminated". CNBC. Archived from the original on November 18, 2020. Retrieved November 18, 2020.
3. @realDonaldTrump (November 17, 2020). "Therefore, effective immediately, Chris Krebs has been terminated as Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
4. "Christopher C. Krebs". Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency. November 17, 2020. Archived from the original on November 18, 2020.
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6. Restuccia, Michelle; Hackman, Andrew (October 21, 2019). "White House Personnel Director Tells Trump Top DHS Secretary Picks Ineligible for Job". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on October 21, 2019. Retrieved October 21, 2019.
7. Kanno-Youngs, Zolan; Haberman, Maggie (October 21, 2019). "Trump Running Out of Options for Homeland Security Secretary". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on November 18, 2020. Retrieved October 22, 2019.
8. Geller, Eric (November 12, 2020). "Top cyber official expecting to be fired as White House frustrations hit agency protecting elections". Politico. Archived from the original on November 16, 2020. Retrieved November 14, 2020.
9. Bing, Christopher; Menn, Joseph; Satter, Raphael (November 12, 2020). "Exclusive: Top official on U.S. election cybersecurity tells associates he expects to be fired". Reuters. Archived from the original on November 18, 2020. Retrieved November 14, 2020.
10. Fichera, Angelo; Spencer, Saranac Hale (November 13, 2020). "Bogus Theory Claims Supercomputer Switched Votes in Election".
11. ^ Nakashima, Ellen; Miroff, Nick (November 17, 2020). "Trump fires top DHS official who refuted his claims that the election was rigged". The Washington Post. Retrieved November 18, 2020.
12. Sanger, David E. (November 18, 2020). "Trump fires Christopher Krebs, whose agency disputed president's false claims of election fraud". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on November 18, 2020. Retrieved November 18, 2020.

External links

• Appearances on C-SPAN
• Media related to Christopher C. Krebs at Wikimedia Commons

• Antonin Scalia Law School alumni
• Living people
• Microsoft employees
• Trump administration personnel
• United States Department of Homeland Security officials
• University of Virginia alumni