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Perhaps if Donald Trump hadn't used his "Infrastructure Week" press conference to unload all of the racist garbage cluttering his mind on a national television audience, he could have kept his National Infrastructure Advisory Council intact. But he did, and the council, like so many others is splintering with more than one-quarter of its members resigning en masse.
Seven members of the 27-person National Infrastructure Advisory Council, mostly Democrats, are stepping down, said Cristin Dorgelo, one of the resigning members, in an email to CQ Roll Call. Dorgelo, a senior counselor at Mission Partners LLC, was formerly chief of staff for President Barack Obama’s Office of Science and Technology Policy. […]
In the letter, the resigning council members said they normally work in a bipartisan and collaborative fashion.
"Unfortunately," they added, "our experience to date has not demonstrated that the Administration is adequately attentive to the pressing national security matters within the NIAC’s purview, or responsive to sound advice received from experts and advisors on these matters."
"In taking on this duty," they wrote, "we each took an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Today, that oath compels us to resign. The moral infrastructure of our Nation is the foundation on which our physical infrastructure is built. The Administration's actions undermine that foundation."
The NIAC is tasked with advising the president through the Department of Homeland Security on securing the nation's critical infrastructure and information systems. So, yeah, they kind of provide important advice for a president to have, particularly when we know that a hostile foreign power has been conducting a cyber war on our elections infrastructure. Maybe Trump has been taking his cybersecurity advice from the Putin regime rather than the NIAC.