By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN
Updated 3:17 PM ET, Sat November 28, 2020
(CNN)Christopher Krebs, the former top cybersecurity official, said President Donald Trump’s decision to unceremoniously fire him via tweet last week was “not how I wanted to go out.”
Krebs, who was booted from his job as director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, told CBS’ “60 Minutes” in an interview that he was not completely surprised by his dismissal and shared that he’s most upset about not having a chance to say farewell to his former team.
“I don’t know if I was necessarily surprised. It’s not how I wanted to go out,” Krebs told CBS’ Scott Pelley in an excerpt of an interview released Friday and set to air in full on Sunday.
“The thing that upsets me the most about that is I didn’t get a chance to say goodbye to my team. And I’d worked with them for three and a half years, in the trenches. Building an agency, putting CISA on the national stage. And I love that team. And I didn’t get a chance to say goodbye, so that’s what I’m most upset about.”
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Carl Sagan
Article URL : https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/28/politics/chris-krebs-trump-election-security-60-minutes-interview/index.html