CISA exec blames nation-state hackers and Democrats for putting America's critical systems at risk An unidentified nation-state hacking crew targeting vulnerable F5 products to break into US government networks poses an "imminent risk" to federal agencies, American cyber officials warned on Wednesday – while also blaming Democrats for the ongoing government shutdown and insisting that the staffing cuts haven't hurt cyber …
" I'm unaware of their staffing levels as we continue to see the Democrats' refusal on the Hill to act,"
Yet another Trump nominee, who, not only is a moron, but also lies about everything. Shutdown is and was caused by GOP. Again.
Funny thing this guy haven't noticed. Another arselicking moron.
There were also the loses during the Doge/Musk chaos and Trump pulling staff to help with immigration paper work. Republicans don't actually care about CISA functioning, it's just a chance to try and blame yet another thing on democrats.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-08/homeland-security-cyber-personnel-reassigned-to-jobs-in-trump-s-deportation-push?embedded-checkout=true
Looks like Nick here is working on an ethics violation for his accusations to have him stripped of his ISC2 credentials. In no way is this the fault or f the Democrats, and the CISA mission at its inception UNDER TRUMPS FIRST TERM literally stated combating disinformation as one of its goals.
Clear case of failing to uphold the ethics of his CISSP cert if I ever saw it by mixing unfounded political accusations with his duty as a cybersecurity professional.
The party in power with majorities in both houses of Congress has, <checks notes> failed to pass a budget despite ALREADY having gotten a several-months extension (that first continuing resolution) to give them extra time to do it, and all the while has been systematically destroying security resources. But somehow it's the party NOT in power that is to blame?
Pull the other one, sirrah, for it hath got ye bells on it.
I'm in the US at the moment and the reporting is insane. There's zero political accountability for poor security.
The media publish stories that just cast blame on the threat actors. Strangely enough it is never the administration's fault for leaving the keys in the ignition.
We see the same behaviour in small and large companies where execs avoid responsibility, but it is frightening to see it at this scale.
Blaming Democrats . when they , the republicans , have control of the house , the senate and the white house , is a sport. The republicans are in control and it's happening on their watch. They are simply too spineless to come up and say " yes , we're to blame " . Like kids blaming someone else for their failures and failings. Never take their word for being the truth is the right attitude towards republicans.
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Sure does take 60 votes, and they could fairly easily get another 10 votes from the Democrats with a few changes that they're refusing to make because the House wants to avoid swearing in a new (D) member. The refusal to even consider any changes to the House-approved bill is the sticking point.
It's madness. Violating the Hatch act, these jokers even wanted the airports to play a message saying something like "Due to the Democrats, wait times will be longer due to the gov't shutdown." or something like this. Some airports pointed out it violated the hatch act and they would not play it; some pointed out they use it to play informational messages, not political ones. Some pointed out the Dept. of Homeland Security did not own the screens in their airports and had no say over what played on them.
As for the shutdown -- I'm an indepdendent, it's both main parties faults really, there's nothing at all stopping them from funding the non-controversial stuff and sorting out the rest later. The US has only 2 main political parties, and most in the US pretend the 3rd parties simply don't exist, so any time there's a shutdown, both parties blame the other one. You usually don't have one party making inappropriate political messages as they are now though.
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