Ex-CISA chief slams MAGA 'manufactured outrage' after sudden West Point firing
Jen Easterly has weighed in on the US Army Secretary firing her from a prestigious West Point teaching post a day after the US Military Academy announced the appointment.
The termination, announced — where else — on X by Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, seemingly proves the former CISA chief’s comments about loyalty to the president taking precedence over loyalty to the nation.
In a lengthy LinkedIn post on Thursday, the former US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) chief said “the opportunity to serve again at my alma mater was rescinded — a casualty of casually manufactured outrage that drowned out the quiet labor of truth and the steady pulse of integrity.”
Easterly, who described herself as a “lifelong independent” and noted her military and public service under both Republican and Democratic administrations, said she has “worked my entire career not as a partisan, but as a patriot — not in pursuit of power, but in service to the country I love and in loyalty to the Constitution I swore to protect and defend, against all enemies.”
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