U.S. special counsel Jack Smith subpoenaed Trump White House staff members who might have been involved in firing the government cybersecurity official whose agency judged the 2020 election “the most secure in American history,” The New York Times reported.

Smith is investigating former President Donald Trump’s efforts to show that the 2020 election was decided by voter fraud in several key battleground states.

Christopher Krebs, the Trump administration’s top cybersecurity official during the 2020 election, disagreed with the then-president’s assessment of the election results.

[This seems to me to be more of a political issue rather than legal issue — and to the extent it’s the latter, a civil employment matter at worst. No one hid the fact that Krebs got fired, and no one really hid *why* he got fired. As an executive branch official, Trump had the authority to fire Krebs, even if it was a bad idea and Trump’s motive was political. We’ll see where Smith might be going here, but it suggests that he may have contracted SpecialCounselitis, a common ailment and industrial risk with this job. — Ed]