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Good day. President Trump piled on pressure for Microsoft to fire one of its senior executives over the weekend, who had been deputy attorney general during the Biden administration.
Trump called on the Redmond, Wash.-based tech giant to fire Lisa Monaco, saying the government had stripped her of security clearances and banned her from federal properties over “national security” concerns. She became Microsoft’s head of global affairs during the summer.
Monaco was a prominent figure during the Biden administration, responsible for pushing forward significant shifts in how the U.S. prosecutes cybersecurity. Under her watch, the Justice Department greatly expanded its use of the False Claims Act to target government suppliers who misrepresented their cybersecurity bona fides. She was also instrumental in establishing the ransomware task force within the department.
Trump and his administration have also targeted other key cybersecurity figures from both his first term in the White House and Biden’s four-year term. Chris Krebs, the first head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, was the subject of an executive order directing an investigation earlier this year. Jen Easterly, Krebs’ successor at CISA, had a prestigious job offer at West Point withdrawn in July.
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