OPM Director Katherine Archuleta steps down, Katherine Archuleta surrendered Friday as chief of the Office of Personnel Management, one day after uncovering that a huge number of OPM accounts had been hacked — far more than initially revealed.
Her resignation, accepted by the president, takes impact at the end of the day, and comes after she demanded she would not leave.
"Archuleta made clear to the president that she trusted it was best for her to step aside and allow new leadership that would enable the agency to move past the present challenges and allow the representatives at OPM to proceed with their important work," a White House official said. "This incorporates reacting to the late breaches affecting personal information and enhancing the OPM frameworks to mitigate chances later on."
Beth Cobert, the boss performance officer and representative executive for management at the Office of Management and Budget, will take over for the time being as acting chief of OPM.
"I passed on to the President that I trust it is best for me to step aside and allow new leadership to venture in, enabling the agency to move past the present challenges and allowing the representatives at OPM to proceed with their important work," Archuleta wrote in her statement.
She also said she was "pleased with the work we have done to add to the REDI initiative and our IT Strategic Plan," without specifying the massive data breach.
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest acknowledged Archuleta for executing changes that recognized the data breach.
Individuals from Congress, who have burnt Archuleta from both sides of the aisle over the phenomenal breach, sounded happy she's out.
"This is the absolute right call," said House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah. "OPM needs a skilled, technically savvy leader to manage the greatest cybersecurity emergency in this present nation's history.
"The IG has been warning about security lapses at OPM for almost a decade. This ought to have been addressed much, much sooner however I appreciate the President doing what's best at this point. Later on,
positions of this magnitude ought to be awarded on legitimacy and not out of patronage to political operatives."Rep. Adam B. Schiff, D-Calif., the ranking individual from the House Intelligence Committee, praised the move as "one that will help to restore trust in an agency that not just inadequately protected delicate data of a huge number of Americans yet attempted to react to repeated interruptions."
"In the weeks and months ahead, it is clear significantly more work will be expected to safeguard our systems, especially those which hold the most delicate details about Government representatives, many of whom are depended with critical national security missions."
Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., said he and Rep. Steve Russell, R-Okla., are chipping away at a bill to move trusted status out of the OPM.
"The massive exceptional status breach also demonstrates that OPM is not the best possible agency to ensure the royal stones of American knowledge," Lieu said in a statement. "OPM was never intended to be an insight or national security agency."
Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., had anticipated Archuleta may get hurled aside.
"In the nearing days, when OPM gives Congress more details about the hack, Director Katherine Archuleta may play the sacrificial lamb and lose her occupation," he composed Thursday in a Wired section. "This will be a transparent attempt to con people in general into speculation the issue is explained. At best, firings are results, not arrangements."
On Friday, he conveyed a statement on the resignation: "insufficient
Her resignation, accepted by the president, takes impact at the end of the day, and comes after she demanded she would not leave.
"Archuleta made clear to the president that she trusted it was best for her to step aside and allow new leadership that would enable the agency to move past the present challenges and allow the representatives at OPM to proceed with their important work," a White House official said. "This incorporates reacting to the late breaches affecting personal information and enhancing the OPM frameworks to mitigate chances later on."
Beth Cobert, the boss performance officer and representative executive for management at the Office of Management and Budget, will take over for the time being as acting chief of OPM.
"I passed on to the President that I trust it is best for me to step aside and allow new leadership to venture in, enabling the agency to move past the present challenges and allowing the representatives at OPM to proceed with their important work," Archuleta wrote in her statement.
She also said she was "pleased with the work we have done to add to the REDI initiative and our IT Strategic Plan," without specifying the massive data breach.
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest acknowledged Archuleta for executing changes that recognized the data breach.
Individuals from Congress, who have burnt Archuleta from both sides of the aisle over the phenomenal breach, sounded happy she's out.
"This is the absolute right call," said House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah. "OPM needs a skilled, technically savvy leader to manage the greatest cybersecurity emergency in this present nation's history.
"The IG has been warning about security lapses at OPM for almost a decade. This ought to have been addressed much, much sooner however I appreciate the President doing what's best at this point. Later on,
positions of this magnitude ought to be awarded on legitimacy and not out of patronage to political operatives."Rep. Adam B. Schiff, D-Calif., the ranking individual from the House Intelligence Committee, praised the move as "one that will help to restore trust in an agency that not just inadequately protected delicate data of a huge number of Americans yet attempted to react to repeated interruptions."
"In the weeks and months ahead, it is clear significantly more work will be expected to safeguard our systems, especially those which hold the most delicate details about Government representatives, many of whom are depended with critical national security missions."
Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., said he and Rep. Steve Russell, R-Okla., are chipping away at a bill to move trusted status out of the OPM.
"The massive exceptional status breach also demonstrates that OPM is not the best possible agency to ensure the royal stones of American knowledge," Lieu said in a statement. "OPM was never intended to be an insight or national security agency."
Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., had anticipated Archuleta may get hurled aside.
"In the nearing days, when OPM gives Congress more details about the hack, Director Katherine Archuleta may play the sacrificial lamb and lose her occupation," he composed Thursday in a Wired section. "This will be a transparent attempt to con people in general into speculation the issue is explained. At best, firings are results, not arrangements."
On Friday, he conveyed a statement on the resignation: "insufficient
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