The resignations began Monday and were noticed by the White House on Tuesday. Nextgov has lately announced the resignation note that the departing councilors presented. According to Roll Call, seven members left from the 27-member Council.
Several of those leaving were Obama-era representatives, including retired U.S. Chief Data Scientist DJ Patil and former Office of Science and Technology Policy Chief of Staff Cristin Dorgelo. Not surprisingly, then, the problems outlined in the resignation report were obvious, blaming both Trump’s choice to retreat from the Paris climate agreements and his provocative statements after the Charlottesville strikes, some of which occurred during what was meant to be an infrastructure-focused experience.
“The moral foundation of our Nation is the ground on which our physical foundation is built,” reads the letter in part. “The Administration’s operations are ruining that foundation.”
But the resigning advisors also told the Administration was not “appropriately alert to the important national security matters inside the NIAC’s purview, or sensitive to sound advice drawn from experts and advisors.” The report also zeroed in on “inadequate attention to the increasing threats to the cyber security of the important systems upon which all Americans depend,” including voting systems.
While he has requested better security for state networks, Trump has given little thought or importance when it gets to the broader issues circling, in his words, “the cyber.” Most prominently, he has refused to allow the U.S. intelligence community’s judgment that Russia managed a hacking and propaganda operations meant to subvert the 2016 administrative election and even floated the idea of creating a cybersecurity task force with Russia. The officials also missed a self-imposed deadline for offering a comprehensive cyber security plan.
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