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Return the cyber agency to a narrow mission

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, chapter 5, p. 135. Written by Ken Cuccinelli.

Return the cyber agency to a narrow mission

The document says “shouldWho acts: President, Secretary of Homeland SecurityHow: internal managementp. 135 in the PDF
What the document says

“A conservative Administration should return CISA to its statutory and important but narrow mission.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 135

The chapter states that CISA has been, in its words, weaponised by the Left to censor speech and affect elections. It asks that the agency's funding align narrowly with cyber defense and critical infrastructure, that its emergency communications and chemical facility roles move to FEMA, that its school security functions move to state offices, and that it not duplicate work done at Defense, the FBI and the National Security Agency.

What the document actually says

“A conservative Administration should return CISA to its statutory and important but narrow mission.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 135
That sentence, in plain words

Give this agency back its first job. Keep it small and clear.

What this is about

This agency protects computer systems from attack. The book says it went beyond that job. It says the agency should go back to its first task and do nothing else.

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