In personnel and policy, the Trump administration has demonstrated a dogged devotion to dismantling and destroying the federal government-led censorship-industrial complex. One recent illustration is the State Department’s announcement that it has eliminated the Global Engagement Center (GEC), which censored The Federalist.

One week prior, the White House revealed another vital effort to disarm the speech police — targeting an arguably more pernicious actor than the GEC. In an April 9 memorandum, the president called on relevant officials to revoke any active security clearance held by former Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) chief Chris Krebs and to consider suspending security clearances of those at his cybersecurity firm, SentinelOne.

Corporate media pounced on this development as part of a running feud between a president seeking vengeance and his virtuous insubordinate ex-subordinate, but there was far more significance to the memo.

President Donald Trump’s sanctions came in response to the former CISA director’s having “weaponized and abused his government authority” via his involvement in the censorship-industrial complex. Now he will be held to account by losing his access to America’s secrets.