Ex-CISA chief slams MAGA 'manufactured outrage' after sudden West Point firing
comment 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Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) chief said "the opportunity to serve again at my alma mater was rescinded — a casualty of casually manufactured outrage that drowned out the quiet labor of truth and the steady pulse of integrity."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."
It's about the sacred trust we place in those who wear the uniform — and the damage threatened when that trust is eroded by partisanship. The U.S. military — including its academies — must remain an institution above politics, grounded in service to the Constitution. When outrage is weaponized and truth discarded, it tears at the fabric of unity and undermines the very ethos that draws brave young men and women to serve and sacrifice: Duty, Honor, Country.
