Jason Hopkins writes for the Daily Caller about concerns surrounding a former Biden administration staffer’s powerful new job.
A conservative watchdog group is urging the Trump administration to take a closer look at its contracts with Microsoft as the Biden-era “Arctic Frost” probe continues to unravel.
The Center to Advance Security in America (CASA) is demanding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) review its contracts with Microsoft after the tech giant hired former Biden Justice Department official Lisa Monaco, according to a letter obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The letter warns that Monaco’s senior position poses a national security risk, as she is privy to sensitive information between Microsoft and the federal government.
“The risk that Monaco could again use access to information contained in Department contracts to turn against her political opponents, or even those Microsoft users within the government with whom she disagrees, is great given her past outrageous behavior,” CASA Director James Fitzpatrick stated to DHS. “Considering the various national security implications of Microsoft’s government contracts being overseen by Monaco, we ask you to immediately initiate a review of Microsoft’s contracts with the Department for potential termination.”
Appointed earlier this year as Microsoft’s president of global affairs, Monaco previously served as deputy attorney general under President Joe Biden. As a top prosecutor within the Biden administration, Monaco played an integral role in “Arctic Frost,” a wide-ranging investigation that Republicans contend used an election interference case as a pretense to essentially target the entire Republican Party.
“Given Lisa Monaco’s leadership role in weaponizing the Biden Department of Justice against its political enemies, as evidenced in the recently released documents detailing ‘Arctic Frost’, it is wholly inappropriate and a risk to national security for Monaco to have any role whatsoever in the oversight of DHS contracts at Microsoft,” Fitzpatrick said in a statement provided to the DCNF.
