The former head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, an agency deeply involved in crushing Americans’ free speech, lost a prestigious position at West Point over her censorship activities.
Army Secretary Dan Driscoll announced Wednesday that former CISA Director Jen Easterly will no longer become the “distinguished chair” in West Point’s Department of Social Sciences. The U.S. Military Academy had made Easterly’s appointment public in now-deleted LinkedIn and X posts.
“I have immediately directed West Point to: 1. Rescind Jen Easterly’s offer to serve as the McDermott Chair 2. Pause outside groups from selecting Academy employees or instructors,” Driscoll wrote on X. “I have also asked the Chair of the West Point Board of Visitors to conduct a full review of the Academy’s hiring practices.”
Both the Twitter Files and the House Judiciary Committee exposed CISA’s role in the Biden censorship industrial complex, and MRC highlighted Easterly’s anti-First Amendment efforts in its 57 Biden censorship initiatives study.
For example, before and after the 2020 election, Easterly’s CISA pushed local officials to help the federal agency identify social media content to flag and send to leadership at Big Tech companies like Facebook (now Meta) and Twitter (now X). This process is referred to as “switchboarding,” as noted by MRC in Initiative #4 of its March report. Shockingly, Easterly falsely asserted at a 2023 congressional hearing, “We don’t flag anything to social media organizations.”
Read the Report: The Biden Administration Waged War on Free Speech with 57 Censorship Initiatives
Furthermore, Easterly’s CISA collaborated with the National Security Council to implement censorship efforts, which the Counter Disinformation Unit (CDU), the UK government censorship agency, found effective at crushing speech (initiative 2).
Easterly also helped coordinate the Election Integrity Partnership (initiative 23) that brought together government agencies, Big Tech and academic institutions like Stanford University to flag, censor and suppress speech about election fraud and integrity.
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