The White House alleged this week that former Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Director Chris Krebs "suppressed conservative viewpoints under the guise of combatting purported misinformation."

Those words were followed up by action on Wednesday when President Donald Trump removed Krebs' security clearance. 

Krebs accused of having "weaponized his position against free speech"

According to Breitbart, the revocation of Krebs' security clearance was done via a memorandum which Trump signed in the Oval Office.

"This is a man who weaponized his position against free speech in the election context, in the context of COVID-19," White House staff secretary Will Scharf said after presenting the memorandum.

.@POTUS signs a Presidential Memorandum revoking any active security clearance held by @C_C_Krebs and his associates:

"He's the fraud. He's a disgrace." pic.twitter.com/fG8uVcqhqj

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) April 9, 2025

Scharf explained that the document addressed "existing clearances he might have, and further instructs your Department of Justice [DOJ], other aspects of your government, to investigate some of the malign acts that he participated in while he was still head of CISA."

DOJ to conduct "a comprehensive evaluation of all of CISA's activities"

Breitbart noted how the memorandum "directs the head of every federal agency to immediately revoke any active security clearance held by Krebs."

It also suspends "any active security clearance held by individuals and entities associated with Krebs, including SentinelOne, pending a review of whether such clearances are consistent with national interest."

What's more, an Axios article pointed out that the memorandum calls for the DOJ to carry out "a comprehensive evaluation of all of CISA's activities over the last 6 years."

This includes identifying "any instances where Krebs' or CISA's conduct appears to be contrary to the administration's commitment to free speech and ending federal censorship."

Trump stripped clearances from Hillary Clinton and a dozen other figures

Krebs is not alone in losing his security clearance, as Trump took similar action against more than a dozen former government officials last month.

Fox News reported the targeted figures included 51 intelligence officials who signed an open letter in 2020 which alleged that Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop bore "all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation."

Also affected were former Secretaries of State Antony Blinken and Hillary Clinton, along with former Vice President Kamala Harris and various members of the Biden family.

As well as losing access to classified material, aforementioned figures will no longer have "unescorted access to secure United States Government facilities."