{"id":234919,"date":"2026-04-23T16:25:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T20:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/the-curious-case-of-sean-plankeys-derailed-cisa-nomination\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T19:15:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T23:15:17","slug":"the-curious-case-of-sean-plankeys-derailed-cisa-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/the-curious-case-of-sean-plankeys-derailed-cisa-nomination\/","title":{"rendered":"The curious case of Sean Plankey\u2019s derailed CISA nomination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/4162801\/the-curious-case-of-sean-plankeys-derailed-cisa-nomination.html\">The curious case of Sean Plankey\u2019s derailed CISA nomination<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/4162801\/the-curious-case-of-sean-plankeys-derailed-cisa-nomination.html\">https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/4162801\/the-curious-case-of-sean-plankeys-derailed-cisa-nomination.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-23 16:25:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.csoonline.com\">www.csoonline.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>CSO contacted Scholten\u2019s office multiple times seeking comment, but received no response. CSO also received no response to the questions surrounding this letter from either DHS or CISA. CSO made efforts to reach Plankey for comment, but yielded no response.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"questions-over-who-wanted-plankey-blocked\">Questions over who wanted Plankey blocked<\/h2>\n<p>On March 3, Ana Visneski, a former head of global disaster response at Amazon Web Services and former chief of digital media for the US Coast Guard, posted on Bluesky that she was \u201chearing from multiple sources\u201d that Plankey \u201chas been fired and escorted out of Coast Guard HQ by security,\u201d a post that was picked up by at least one influential military analyst. Visneski did not respond to CSO\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Following Visneski\u2019s social media post, CBS News published a report repeating the allegation, saying that Plankey was abruptly escorted out of the US Coast Guard headquarters and had his access badge removed. CBS News also reported that sources said Plankey\u2019s renomination was made in error, which the White House denied.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/4162801\/the-curious-case-of-sean-plankeys-derailed-cisa-nomination.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The curious case of Sean Plankey\u2019s derailed CISA nomination https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/4162801\/the-curious-case-of-sean-plankeys-derailed-cisa-nomination.html Publish Date: 2026-04-23 16:25:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":234920,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/4162801-0-72680800-1776978069-sean-plankey-shutterstock_editorial_15412739o.jpg?quality=50&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234919"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234921,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234919\/revisions\/234921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}