Adrian Fontes: “This should not be a partisan issue. That’s the hill that I’m willing to die on.”

‘I don’t trust you,’ [Fontes told the CISA officials.] ‘Your boss came out there and said: We are going to criminalize the work you do. Why should we trust you?’

You’re like the arsonist who causes the fire and then says you’re going to come in and cure things.

They just wholly and completely abandoned their duties and threatened prosecution,” Fontes said. “If they want to apologize for threatening us and ruining perfectly good systems, that’s a good start.

He would have thought he was serving his political masters in Washington, D.C., by doing that.