ANALYSIS โ In the latest effort by President Joe Biden and his leftist supporters to censor conservatives and promote their own domestic disinformation, Biden's Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is being savaged for creating aย Disinformation Governance Board (aka: โTruth Board'), to allegedly fight โdisinformation.' (RELATED: Social Media Censorship Particularly Hits Those Without Political Connections)
More specifically, to โcoordinate countering misinformation related to homeland security, focused specifically on irregular migration and Russia.โ
Rather than fix their horrendous, self-created border and migration crisis, they are using taxpayer dollars to fund a monstrous partisan program to spin it.
Beyond the dangerous precedent of the federal government engaging in deciding what is true and what is not, and creating its own partisan โMinistry of Truth' propaganda office at DHS, the executive director of this Orwellian new agency is Nina Jankowicz, well known for peddling her own outrageous disinformation.
As the Washington Examinerย reported, Jankowicz, a well-known Democrat partisan with close links to Ukraine, promoted the debunked Christopher Steele dossier used to smear President Trump and repeatedly downplayed the Hunter Biden laptop story falsely claiming the Democrat spin that it was part of a โforeign interference campaign.'
The Washington Examiner notes thatย Jankowicz replied to aย tweetย byย Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham onย Dec. 8, 2017, asking โWas there collusion between DOJ and Fusion GPS to use Democratic funded dossier for political and legal purposes?โ by saying falsely that โyour party funded the dossier first.โ (RELATED: Trump Sues Hillary and DNC for $72 Million Over Russian Collusion Allegations)
She alsoย tweetedย on April 22, 2020, that โyou're probably aware that [the Steele dossier] began as a Republican opposition research project.โ
But that has proven to be absolutely false. As the Examinerย explains:
โฆSteeleย createdย hisย discredited anti-Trump dossierย after being hired in early 2016 by the opposition firm Fusion GPS, which was itself hired by the Perkins Coie law firm and Marc Elias, theย general counselย for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.
Sheย also describedย the Hunter laptop hard drive โ which has now been repeatedly authenticated by establishment media such as The New York Times and Washington Post โ as a โTrump campaign product.โ
According to the Examiner:
Theย Associated Pressย ranย a story Oct. 14, 2020, reporting, โDisinformation experts say there are multiple red flags that raise doubts about their authenticity, including questions about whether the laptop actually belongs to Hunter Biden, said Nina Jankowicz.โ The report quoted her as saying that โwe should view it as a Trump campaign product.โ
Jankowicz shared a report Oct. 22, 2020, sheย saidย was โcasting yet more doubt on the provenance of theย New York Post's Hunter Biden story.โ And sheย tweetedย that day, โThe emails don't need to be altered to be part of an influence campaign. Voters deserve that context, not a [fairy] tale about a laptop repair shop.โ
And her commitment to free speech, in general, is under fire as well since last week, Jankowiczย toldย NPR in response to Elon Musk's takeover ofย Twitter, that she โshudder[s] to think about if free speech absolutists were taking over more platforms.โ (RELATED: Project Veritas Obtains Secret Audio of Twitter Meeting After Takeover)
Critics and Republican lawmakers are furious. In response, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.)ย tweeted:
During the worst border crisis in history, Biden's DHS is creating an Orwellian โdisinformation governance board' led by a partisan Democrat who herself spread disinformation. What a disgrace. When Republicans take control, we will fix this.
And not waiting till the GOP takes over Congress,ย Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) quicklyย sent Mayorkas a letterย demanding that the board be dissolved immediately:
I confess, I at first thought this announcement was satire. Surely no American Administration would ever use the power of Government to sit in judgment on the First Amendment speech of its own citizens. Sadly, I was mistaken. Rather than protecting our border or the American homeland, you have chosen to make policing Americans' speech your priority. This new board is almost certainly unconstitutional and should be dissolved immediately.
From your mouths to God's ears, senators. We need to quash this grotesque aberration of a leftist Frankenstein monster before it can even stand up.
The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the positions ofย American Liberty News.
2 Comments
Great. Now a federal organization, let us sue the pants or skirts off them under FOIA to ensure transparency and look at their deliberations in deciding what is disinformation.
How often the Biden administration will be cited will be a key factor in the integrity of the Disinformation Governance Board.
Is MAYORKAS stating that the BORDER IS CLOSED going to be the first victim?
So people using disparagingly the term, “Orwellian,” for over 70 years was not enough to keep these morons from actually trying to bring it about. There is nothing that should stand in the way of the fall of this government. They have gone above and beyond to make sure their legacy will be one of complete failure. Many times, works of fiction lead mankind in a direction of good but I would not rule out civil war to prevent this dystopian novel from being brought to life.