Noem terminates 24 FEMA workers for failing to address cyber vulnerabilities

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4. Reuters notes the interesting timing...

US Homeland Security chief reports breach at FEMA, fires 23 employees

DHS did not immediately respond to a message seeking further clarity on what happened.

Noem devoted nine paragraphs of her statement about the breach to attacks on FEMA's IT staff, accusing them of "failure," "neglect," "incompetence" and dishonesty. She said 23 of them had been fired. Reuters could not immediately verify her claims.

News of the FEMA breach - and the mass firing purportedly connected to it - follows an open letter of dissent against the agency's leadership signed by scores of current and former FEMA employees. The letter warned Congress that the inexperience of top appointees of President Donald Trump's administration could lead to a catastrophe on the level of Hurricane Katrina, which ravaged the Gulf Coast of the United States 20 years ago.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/dhs-chief-noem-fires-two-211242780.html