How a 'nonsensical' Project 2025 initiative could massively damage U.S. elections: report
A new report from Wired reveals that a little-noticed proposal buried within Project 2025 could have potentially disastrous consequences for future elections in the United States.
Specifically, the report looks at Project 2025's plans for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, which has drawn ire from conservatives for trying to combat internet disinformation that is aimed at weakening American society.
Project 2025 identifies dismantling CISA's anti-disinformation efforts as of "the utmost urgency" in its efforts to remake the federal government.
Perhaps the most eyebrow-raising proposal in Project 2025 for CISA is to move it out of the Department of Homeland Security and merge it with the Department of Transportation, which does not specialize in cybersecurity.
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Mark Montgomery, senior director of the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, tells Wired that the plan to move CISA to the Department of Transportation is "nonsensical," as that department is "one of the last places" that a cybersecurity agency should go.
"Giving CISA to Department of Transportation would reduce the cybersecurity of our national critical infrastructure for some period of time," he explains.
Steve Kelly, a former special assistant to the president and senior director for cybersecurity and emerging technology at the National Security Council, similarly expressed befuddlement at this particular Project 2025 plan, which he said "doesn't make a lot of sense” as it would “would undermine some of the organizational logic."
“I don't actually understand the rationale of that," he added.
Taking a look at Project 2025 as a whole, Montgomery described the document as "full of little tantrums," while also saying that it “shows a lack of understanding of how federal government works.”
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