Donald Trump fired White House cybersecurity chief last week, hasn’t replaced him, and he’s vanished

| 6:35 pm EST February 10, 2017
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More details are emerging surrounding Donald Trump’s abrupt firing of White House chief information security officer Cory Louie, who was reportedly escorted out of the building after being terminated from his job. While confirmation of the firing is just coming out now, it actually took place a week ago – and it appears there is now no one in the crucial role. Even more strangely, Louie appears to have since simply vanished from the face of the earth.

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The buildup goes like this: Cory Louie was hired by President Barack Obama in 2015 to be in charge of making sure that the top people in the White House are digitally secure so they don’t get hacked. Although the job was non-political in nature, something happened last week which caused Louie to be not only fired, but escorted out of his own office — a tactic which is most typically invoked when the fired employee is believed to be some kind of risk, or the employer wants to humiliate him.

Louie’s underlings are declining to serve up the details of what happened, but they are now leaking that the working environment under Trump is “toxic” and that they’re now afraid they’re the next to go. Even more strangely, no one appears to have taken Louie’s place. So it’s not as if Trump merely wanted to bring in his own guy. And now no one appears to be officially in charge of keeping the president and his computing devices from getting hacked.

Meanwhile, Cory Louie has apparently disappeared since he was fired. His LinkedIn profile says that he still works at the White House. No recent trace of him can be found on social media sites like Facebook or Twitter. So whatever Louie’s side of the story is, he’s definitely not telling it – or saying anything at all. In fact he hasn’t even updated his online resume. Instead there’s simply no remaining trace of the guy. What the hell happened?

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