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Senator puts hold on Trump’s nominee for CISA director, citing telco security ‘cover up’
Sean Plankey's nomination to head up CISA will be blocked, for now.
In remarks slated for Wednesday, Wyden — who serves on the Senate Intelligence Committee — said his staff members were previously permitted to read the unclassified report but that efforts to publicly release its findings were refused. Wyden said he appealed to then-CISA Director Jen Easterly as well as then-President Joe Biden to release the report prior to the change in government. Wyden said the hacks, which allowed the hackers to snoop on calls and text messages of senior American officials, were “the direct result of U.S. phone carriers’ failure to follow cybersecurity best practices … and federal agencies failing to hold these companies accountable.”
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