Homeland Security boss says CISA has gone off the rails, vows to set it right

Uncle Sam's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, aka CISA, has gone off the rails by trying to dispel disinformation, according to US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. So to "put CISA back on mission," Noem's government department, which oversees the cyber-agency, is "conducting an assessment" prevent any …

[Gary Stewart]

Oh look,

cosplay Barbie is at it again, pretending she has some idea of WTF she's doing. With zero exceptions this has got to be the most unqualified cabinet in the history of the US. An oak cabinet has more brains than the entire Trump cabinet combined.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Oh look,

Oak was closer to sentience and self awareness than some of the fuckwits in that government

[ecofeco]

Re: Oh look,

Claus Barbie.

[EricM]

> They were deciding what was truth and what was not. And it's not the job of CISA to be the Ministry of Truth."

Yes it is their job. Assessing trustworthiness and assigning levels of trust to sources of information is a basic function of any meaningful security, including the cyber variant.

And if some wacko and his pals put out information that an election was manipulated, and the information is factual wrong, it _is_ the job of CISA to label this information "false". Even if the wacko happens to be a sitting president, who just lost his re-election.

That independence from political will and operating simply based on facts, or "truth", if you will, made many american institutions very powerful in the past. Now, that many institutions are forced to bend to the will of said wacko, that power is bound to vanish. A statement from CISA in 2026 will probably not be worth more than a statement from some random russian organization today, they will be ordered to say whatever pleases the president.

We urgently need a full EU-based replication of all security-related functions, that are still provided by U.S. based sources to the EU.

[Giles C]

I think you have missed the reference

“Ministry of truth” refers to George Orwell’s 1984 when the objective was to rewrite information to fit the party line.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministries_in_Nineteen_Eighty-Four

Yes CISA needs to be an independent source of truth but it must be free from political interference.

[EricM]

I did certainly not miss the ... let's say 'mention of a phrase connected to Orwell'.

I just do not belive it fits to the situation, as it was not CISA who put out the misinformation, but the election loser of 2020. And CISA rightfully labelled it as such.

Of course the new american ministry of cosplay disagrees, as their chief doofus turned dear leader still claims he won the 2020 election and Homeland Security now obviously sees its mission in helping him spread his lies.

This would make the use of this phrase by Kristi Noem to attack CISA highly self-ironic... which I believe she is not capabable of.

So I need to conclude she is not aware what it really stands for.

TL;DR Kristi Noem does not know what she is talking about.

[hammarbtyp]

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

[codejunky]

@hammarbtyp

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

Biden is sharp as a tack. Running rings around his staffers.

[Citizen of Nowhere]

Re: @hammarbtyp

>“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

>Biden is sharp as a tack. Running rings around his staffers.

Indeed, Trump isn't a deranged loony who understands as much about making deals as he understands about how he managed to lose all Daddy's money, bankrupts casinos, could not run an airline, could not sell fucking steaks for God's sake (I know 20 shops within a kilometre of me which have sold more steaks than Donald -- the Art of the Deal -- Trump), created a fraudulent university which was actually a shite fraud and got busted real old cue-ee-wick. Still, I can understand why you would like the guy. But could you please stop wanking on the guy in public; it's a little unseemly, even for a spunk coder. Sorry, junk coder.

[codejunky]

Re: @hammarbtyp

@Citizen of Nowhere

Are you feeling better now? Had a lie down? One little factual line about Biden almost gave you an aneurysm over Trump! Do you suffer a case of Trump Derangement Syndrome?

[ChodeMonkey]

Re: @hammarbtyp

"Are you feeling better now? Had a lie down?"

Madam, you really should heed your own advice at this juncture. Have you consulted your physician on these manias and derangements you are exhibiting? Perhaps a curative stay at a spa ?

[Big_Boomer]

Totally predictable.

Ancient Orange and his flunkies rely on misdirection, half-truths, and even outright lies, so they can't possibly have somebody independent and trusted point out their "inaccuracies" can they? I mean it makes them look incompetent at best and downright criminal at worst. Expect more of this kind of thing over the next few years as they dismantle all the checks and balances that keep the USA a democracy. Soon to become the Peoples Democratic Republic of North America if he carries on like this for the next 1360 days.

[gryphon]

Re: Totally predictable.

To misquote Dodgeball.

Surely it will be the American Peoples Republic of America?

Can't mentioned Democratic because that would summon up ideas of the party rather than the principle.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Totally predictable.

"makes them look incompetent at best and downright criminal at worst"

"Look"? Ronald Dump and his coterie of fuckwits ARE incompetent and criminal. I'm surprised the people of the US need a government agency to help them spot that, when the rest of the world is laughing at America's elected leaders.

Then again, the Orange Felon is already talking about a third term, and still the US public haven't spotted they're being taken for fools.

[Doctor Syntax]

Maybe it's not really Noem, maybe it's someone who used that stolen pass of hers. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c74zv04xkkgo

Security/ R-i-i-ight.

[Falmari]

Ministry of Truth

"They were deciding what was truth and what was not. It's not the job of CISA to be the Ministry of Truth"

Trump has been very busy these last 100 days, what with renaming the Gulf of Mexico, playing chicken with China, fashion advisor to Ukraine’s president, being a friend to Putin when no one else would, advertising for Tesla, and golf, there's not been the time to create the Ministry of Truth.

Once Trump has closed a few of those unnecessary and wasteful Federal Agencies and Government Departments he will have the funding for the Ministry of Truth and empty Government buildings to house it. Goodbye Department of Education hello Ministry of Truth.

The obvious choice to lead the Ministry of Truth has to be Karoline Leavitt, as White House press secretary she has had to step up and do the job of the Ministry of Truth. The excellent job she has done shows she has the necessary skills to decide what is truth and what is not.

[HuBo]

Re: Ministry of Truth

Yeah, Karoline Chipmunk Leavitt sure does look, sound, and act a lot like Dmitry forked-tongue Orwellian Newspeak master babbling reality field inversion truth bender Peskov, imho. Quite the phytomorphic epigone ...

Highly symptomatic of the totalitarian superstatization of America, unwinding as we speak, in Incubus Orange II: Zombie Bananarama Retribution, The Tousled Return of Bloodthirsty Mullets!

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Ministry of Truth

They can just get another Karoline Leavitt or two from the factory.

[Lazlo Woodbine]

Dictators fear truth...

[disgruntled yank]

Please

Isn't the organization now the Department of Handbag Security?

[ecofeco]

Re: Please

Shoulder bag or clutch?

[Winkypop]

But more importantly

No animals (dogs) were harmed during the interview.

[Ace2]

Anybody know where to find a good gravel pit?

[Anonymous Coward]

This unqualified dingbat should go back to fancy dress pretending to be a cop.

[Anonymous Coward]

Security Barbie can’t even secure her own purse.

Does she even know what a computer is?

[egbegb]

The Register: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/30/noem_put_cisa_on_mission/

Homeland Security boss says CISA has gone

off the rails, vows to set it right

Jessica Lyons Wed 30 Apr 2025 // 01:59 UTC

EricM: It is decidedly NOT the job of CSIA to be

a "ministry of truth". Read the law that

created it. Stop with your wild guesses and ignorance.

(EricM quote): 'And if some wacko and his pals

put out information that an election was manipulated,

and the information is factual wrong, it _is_ the

job of CISA to label this information "false".'

NOPE. You're so wrong. CISA was and is mandated to deal

with cyber security technology. Your "ministry of truth"

was shot down upon proposal in a Democratic House and

Senate. Biden got away with it in CISA for a little while.

Thankfully, it is now gone.

I suspect you are not American, not born and raised in

America, or even have lived in America for any number of

years. I would guess that by your ignorance of our laws and

our 'dysfunctional regulatory state (!)', you make such outlandish

statements. We are an interesting

lot that, apparently, you don't understand.

Giles C:

No, CISA does not need to be a ministry of truth. All ministries

of "truth" are necessarily biased. You would be OK as long as

you and the MOT-party were in agreement. When that party was out

of power you will squeal loudly. Read the law that created CISA to

see what it's mission is and why Biden strayed from that mission. (I

shouldn't denigrate Joe Biden. He was infirm for all 4 years of

his term. I blame the auto-pen and those supporting it. Elder

abuse has presented itself to the American public for 4 years.)

Krisi Noem knows far more about CISA than you have demonstrated

here. You can easily be identified as a blowhard if you can't

come up with a huge number of settled facts to support your

emotional rants. My guess is you will go silent. However, I have

an open mind and will listen and research intently facts you

present.

Jessica Lyons: You seem to have conflated a "ministry of truth"

with the actual mission of CISA. Can you explain where I am

going wrong?

[Andrew Scott]

Kristy "Who took the dog out" Noem. can't make this stuff up. well if trump ends up in a gravel pit we'll know why.