Lorraine E-Van-Off

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Apr 6

Funny how he looks like what traitors in the GOP would call a DEI hire 🙄 "In July 2025, the acting director of the nation’s civilian cyberdefense agency [Madhu Gottumukkala] walked into a secure facility for a counterintelligence polygraph and did not pass. Five current officials and one former official later confirmed this to Politico. Then, he took it again. He did not pass the second time either. Within days of the first result, the employees who had arranged the examination and done nothing more than follow the security requirements of the originating intelligence agency received letters suspending their access to classified information. The acting director kept his badge, but the staffers who enforced the rules lost theirs. Madhu Gottumukkala arrived as acting director in May 2025, installed by Secretary Kristi Noem. His career had moved from Motorola and Verizon consulting to Samsung engineering to a CTO post at CallHealth in Hyderabad, then to Sanford Health, then to South Dakota state government as CIO. None of those roles required navigating the culture or methods of the intelligence community. Dakota State University — where Gottumukkala completed his PhD and later joined the advisory board — holds all three NSA Center of Academic Excellence designations and hosts an on-campus SCIF. To whoever placed him, that combination may have read as a credential. The substantive career remained in civilian IT and healthcare. Within weeks of his arrival, in his first major intelligence briefing, he asked what threats the U.S. faced from the Southern border and India — a country that has never been considered a significant cyber adversary, while Russia and China were actively targeting American networks. “Typically, India would be the last place we’d be talking about,” said one official who was in the room. He also, within weeks of arrival, began pressing for access to a Controlled Access Program — among the most restricted intelligence compartments in existence, established only when ordinary Special Access Programs are insufficient, governed by the Director of National Intelligence, with entry conditions set by the originating agency. A senior career official denied the first request: there was no operational need, and his predecessor had never sought the same access. That official was subsequently placed on administrative leave. A second request, signed personally by Gottumukkala, went forward. His signature acknowledged the counterintelligence polygraph requirement mandated by the originating agency. Career staff arranged the examination. In late July 2025, he took the polygraph. He did not pass. He took it again. He did not pass again. According to the March 13, 2026 congressional letter led by Rep. James Walkinshaw (VA-11) and signed by four colleagues — citing information provided to House Homeland Security Committee staff by one of the suspended employees — Gottumukkala failed two counter-intelligence scope polygraphs required for access to the program. The letter was addressed to the inspectors general of DHS and the Intelligence Community. Two failures. The same program. At an agency whose statutory mission is protecting federal networks from adversaries." The Architecture of Erasure open.substack.com/pub/hackin…

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Indiana Jones ✟

Indiana Jones ✟@Fyreball1337

Jan 28

Replying to @RedPillRabbit

And looking at his work history it's not broadly stated but appears to has heavy work at Indian firms like Callhealth. Par for the course. Only see "manager roles". Not sure of what actual real experience he has in cyber. Another Indian scam.

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