Chief IT Officer Fired By Obama Might Have Been Terminated For Refusing to Sign False Certification of Healthcare.gov's Security

From Hotair.com"

CBS News has learned that [Tony] Trenkle, the Chief Information Officer for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), was originally supposed to sign off on security for the glitch-ridden website before its Oct. 1 launch, but didn’t. Instead, the authorization on September 27 was given by Trenkle’s boss, CMS administrator Marilyn Tavenner…

Trenkle and two other CMS officials, including Chief Operating Officer Michelle Snyder, signed an unusual “risk acknowledgement” saying that the agency’s mitigation plan for rigorous monitoring and ongoing tests did “not reduce the (security) risk to the … system itself going into operation on October 1, 2013.”…

Wednesday, an HHS spokesman said that the reason Tavenner, not Trenkle, signed the security authorization is because HealthCare.gov is “a high-profile project and CMS felt it warranted having the administrator sign the authority to operate memo.” HHS also says there is an aggressive risk mitigation plan in effect, “the privacy and security of consumers personal information is a top priority for us” and personal information is “protected by stringent security standards.”

Ace of Spades HQ comments:

So to put the site on-line, federal rules required that it be certified as secure. The Chief IT officer apparently refused. Why? Because the thing had never had the tests required for certification at all. (If it had been tested, it would have failed.)

So what happens? His boss signs her name to the certification -- falsely, as the "required" tests had never been performed.

And now he's departing, either by resigning or being fired or being pressured to leave. We don't know.

Time for another Issa subpena?