Secretary of the Army Daniel Driscoll has taken control of the hiring process of the United States Military Academy at West Point and ordered the firing of Jen Easterly, a recent hire for a professorship who was the head the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) unconstitutional censorship regime of American citizens under the Biden administration.
Easterly graduated West Point in 1990 (also studied at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar), served over 20 years, attaining the rank of colonel. After retiring Easterly worked for the NSA and other positions in the Obama administration. Easterly worked for Morgan Stanley during the first Trump administration, returning to government as a Biden appointee to lead CISA in 2021.
More on Easterly via the George C. Marshall International Center, which honored her in 2024 with their Ethical Leadership Award (excerpt): “A two-time recipient of the Bronze Star, Easterly retired from the U.S. Army after more than 20 years of service in intelligence and cyber operations, including tours of duty in Haiti, the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan. A distinguished graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, she earned a master’s degree in philosophy, politics and economics from the University of Oxford, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar.”
Driscoll issued his orders publicly on Wednesday, the day after the Dean of West Point, Brigadier General Shane Reeves posted a gushing welcome to Easterly on X. Reeves’ post was deleted late Wednesday morning after Driscoll’s order to fire Easterly. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth reposted Driscoll’s statement Wednesday morning.
I have immediately directed West Point to:
1. Rescind Jen Easterly’s offer to serve as the McDermott Chair
2. Pause outside groups from selecting Academy employees or instructorsI have also asked the Chair of the West Point Board of Visitors to conduct a full review of the Academy’s hiring practices.
I have immediately directed West Point to:
1. Rescind Jen Easterly’s offer to serve as the McDermott Chair
2. Pause outside groups from selecting Academy employees or instructorsI have also asked the Chair of the West Point Board of Visitors to conduct a full review of the… pic.twitter.com/AJixH5LtjI
— Secretary of the Army (@SecArmy) July 30, 2025
The hiring of Easterly was blasted by Laura Loomer Tuesday night on X (excerpt):
There are clearly a lot of Biden holdovers at DOD undermining the Trump admin.
Who the hell is doing the hiring over at DOD @DeptofDefense? It’s horrendous.
Why did Jen Easterly @CISAJen get hired as the head of Social Sciences at @WestPoint_USMA?
Jen was the Director of CISA under Joe Biden where she brought in Biden’s notorious disinformation czar Nina Jankowicz, who served as the Executive Director of the Disinformation Governance Board of the United States.
Wow @PeteHegseth! Looks like some of your underlings are trying to screw you.
There are clearly a lot of Biden holdovers at DOD undermining the Trump admin.
Who the hell is doing the hiring over at DOD @DeptofDefense? It’s horrendous.
Why did Jen Easterly @CISAJen get hired… https://t.co/MLuMiyr4sT pic.twitter.com/541DFS8MxS
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) July 30, 2025
Just a few months ago, in April, Easterly attacked President Trump for his personnel decisions, reported Washington Times reporter Ryan Lovelace(excerpt):
Biden’s top cyber official Jen Easterly rips Trump’s personnel changes as ‘something dark’https://t.co/YrPrlkg8cC pic.twitter.com/lWasQ9DcKU
— The Washington Times (@WashTimes) April 30, 2025
Former Biden administration cyber official Jen Easterly said she fears President Trump’s personnel changes represent something more sinister than the normal churn of the revolving door in the federal government.
Ms. Easterly, former leader of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, is irked by Mr. Trump ousting the leaders of the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command and his issuing a memo cracking down on former CISA official Chris Krebs.
“What’s happening now is not a policy disagreement, but something dark: the targeting and removal of nonpartisan public servants and the normalization of loyalty oaths to something other than our Constitution,” Ms. Easterly wrote on LinkedIn on Friday. “And if we — who aim to protect critical systems — can’t defend the humans who manage and maintain them, what exactly are we securing?”
…Now that Mr. Biden’s appointees are no longer in power, Ms. Easterly is urging cyber officials to speak up and defend her goal of protecting institutions from the new administration’s changes.
“Some moments in history demand character over calibration,” Ms. Easterly wrote. “If we stay silent when experienced, mission-driven leaders are sidelined or sanctioned, we risk something greater than discomfort; we risk diminishing the very institutions we are here to protect.”
Evita Duffy-Alfonso, daughter of the Trump administration’s Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, criticized Easterly in a post on January 17 for promoting protecting “cognitive infrastructure”, “CISA (DHS sub-agency) violated the Constitution by censoring countless Americans—it should be abolished, not emboldened. Here’s CISA Director Jen Easterly admitting her priority is protecting “cognitive infrastructure”—code for controlling our minds. DHS needs to end the Orwellian despotism.”
CISA (DHS sub-agency) violated the Constitution by censoring countless Americans—it should be abolished, not emboldened.
Here’s CISA Director Jen Easterly admitting her priority is protecting “cognitive infrastructure”—code for controlling our minds.
DHS needs to end the… https://t.co/AB5umv69el pic.twitter.com/kROhLio4iY
— Evita Duffy-Alfonso (@evitaduffy_1) January 17, 2025
Earlier this week, Driscoll ordered West Point to restore the military academy’s crest to bibles ordered for the Cadet Chapel, “Today @WestPoint_USMA signed a contract for 1,800 new bibles, this time with the academy crest, for the Cadet Chapel. This restores an important symbol to a sacred place, on a hallowed installation.”
Today @WestPoint_USMA signed a contract for 1,800 new bibles, this time with the academy crest, for the Cadet Chapel.
This restores an important symbol to a sacred place, on a hallowed installation.https://t.co/n50vklGUSZ pic.twitter.com/74zL7JRdiY
— Secretary of the Army (@SecArmy) July 28, 2025
Fox News excerpt:
The secretary of the Army has ordered the U.S. Military Academy at West Point to restore the school’s crest on the Bibles at the West Point Cadet Chapel, reversing a Biden-era decision to not include the crest when replacing the Bibles.
“Since the founding of West Point and before, generations of cadets, officers, and Soldiers have drawn strength and inspiration from God’s word,” Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll said in a Friday statement to Fox News Digital. “The decision to remove the Academy’s historic crest from the Bibles in the Cadet Chapel is yet another example of the previous administration pushing far-left politics into our military institutions. I am directing West Point to reverse this decision immediately and restore this important symbol of Duty, Honor, Country.”
Driscoll’s bible crest order came in response to a Biden era FOIA lawsuit recently filed by Judicial Watch:
VICTORY: Judicial Watch DEFEATS West Point DEI War on Bibles! | READ: https://t.co/aKQgrb91l0 pic.twitter.com/TipCcFs0sL
— Judicial Watch
(@JudicialWatch) July 30, 2025
UPDATE: Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell stated, “We’re not turning cadets into censorship activists. We’re turning them into warriors & leaders. We’re in the business of warfighting. Our future officers will get the most elite training so that America can continue to dominate on the battlefield.”
We’re not turning cadets into censorship activists. We’re turning them into warriors & leaders.
We’re in the business of warfighting.
Our future officers will get the most elite training so that America can continue to dominate on the battlefield. https://t.co/MXSxLGBDVR
— Sean Parnell (@SeanParnellUSA) July 30, 2025
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