Army rescinds West Point role for ex‑CISA director after Laura Loomer criticism

Source: The Hill

07/30/25 4:46 PM ET


Army Secretary Dan Driscoll on Wednesday announced that he had rescinded a U.S. Military Academy at West Point job offer given to the former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, a move that came less than 24 hours after far-right activist Laura Loomer criticized the hiring.

Jen Easterly, who led CISA under former President Biden, is a West Point graduate and was planning to serve as the next Robert F. McDermott Distinguished Chair in the school’s Department of Social Sciences. But Loomer, in a Tuesday post to X that tagged Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, decried the hiring, declaring that “some of your underlings are trying to screw you,” at the Defense Department.

“There are clearly a lot of Biden holdovers at DOD undermining the Trump admin,” Loomer wrote, questioning Easterly’s appointment. “Who the hell is doing the hiring over at DOD? It’s horrendous.”

Loomer also claimed that while Easterly was CISA director she “brought in” Nina Jankowitz, a former Department of Homeland Security official who ran the now‑shuttered Disinformation Governance Board, casting her as a group of “Biden holdovers who worked to silence Trump supporters.”

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5428595-jen-easterly-west-point-laura-loomer/