Trump reining in the speech police

 The Federalist Wire:

In personnel and policy, the Trump administration has demonstrated a dogged devotion to dismantling and destroying the federal government-led censorship-industrial complex. One recent illustration is the State Department’s announcement that it has eliminated the Global Engagement Center (GEC), which censored The Federalist.

One week prior, the White House revealed another vital effort to disarm the speech police — targeting an arguably more pernicious actor than the GEC. In an April 9 memorandum, the president called on relevant officials to revoke any active security clearance held by former Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) chief Chris Krebs and to consider suspending security clearances of those at his cybersecurity firm, SentinelOne.

Corporate media pounced on this development as part of a running feud between a president seeking vengeance and his virtuous insubordinate ex-subordinate, but there was far more significance to the memo.

President Donald Trump’s sanctions came in response to the former CISA director’s having “weaponized and abused his government authority” via his involvement in the censorship-industrial complex. Now he will be held to account by losing his access to America’s secrets.

But the president’s memo went still further. After detailing Krebs’ alleged malfeasance, Trump also tasked the attorney general and secretary of homeland security with investigating not only the ex-director for his activities as then-CISA chief, but CISA itself — going back six years and with a focus on “any instances where CISA’s conduct appears to have been contrary to the purposes and policies identified in Executive Order 14149,” which prohibits the federal government from engaging in censorship efforts.

At the conclusion of that probe, the agency heads are to submit a report to the president “with recommendations for appropriate remedial or preventative actions to be taken to fulfill the purposes and policies of Executive Order 14149.”
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The Biden administration often attempted to censor speech it did not like.  This was unconstitutional conduct in breach of the First Amendment.  Trump is correcting that wrong despite the fact that many in the mainstream media remain hostile to his presidency.

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