Wednesday, March 29, 2023

DHS Heavily Redacted Disinformation Board Emails Despite Claiming Agency Had Nothing To Hide

 When the existence of the Disinformation Governance Board burst into public view, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said there was nothing sinister to hide and claimed the office was rooted in "Best practices."

What little is visible makes clear that DHS underestimated the negative reaction the board would provoke and was scrambling to find ways to keep the story from being pushed by "Hostile" news outlets.

Josh Hawley and Ron Johnson, such as what language in the Constitution allows DHS to create such a board and hire staff for it.

Email redactions from DHS emails regarding Disinformation Board.

"Joe Biden's Orwellian Disinformation Governance Board is just the latest example of the left's push to weaponize the massive powers of the federal government for political purposes," he wrote.

"We have repeatedly sought information from you concerning your official actions and duties as a DHS employee and former Executive Director of the Board," Jordan wrote to Jankowicz in March, "Including how the Board intended to define disinformation, how it planned to collection information and from what sources, how it anticipated countering disinformation, and how it proposed to protect First Amendment rights."

"I will happily testify," she tweeted earlier this month, "To the truth of the Board under oath: That it was a working group meant to address disinformation that endangered Americans' safety, and that - because of the Republican Party's irresponsible lies about it - our democracy is less secure."

https://justthenews.com/government/federal-government-heavily-redacts-dhs-disinformation-board-emails-masking-how-and-why

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