EXCLUSIVE: At least 175 House Republicans are demanding answers from DHS Security Alejandro Mayorkas about his department's new Disinformation Governance Board.
Jankowicz, a disinformation fellow at the Wilson Center, will be the executive director of the Department of Homeland Security’s new anti-disinformation effort. She has a history of either labeling claims as disinformation that were later found to have credibility or giving credence to assertions that were later discredited, including those related to Hunter Biden, Christopher Steele, Iranian election meddling, the Wuhan, China, lab leak hypothesis, and more.
Republicans noted she expressed support for Steele even though the dossier “has long-since been discredited as one of its main sources was charged with five counts of making false statements to the FBI,” and she “also cast doubt on the Hunter Biden laptop story” without evidence. The GOP also pointed out that DHS’s “primary mission sets are countering terrorism, securing the border, securing cyberspace and infrastructure, upholding economic security, strengthening resilience, and strengthening DHS itself” and that combating misinformation has largely been a U.S. foreign policy mission, not a domestic one, and so “we are concerned that DHS is overstepping its authority with the creation of this board.
“What is the Board’s specific directive and mission?” they asked Mayorkas, adding, “Why is DHS putting valuable resources toward a mission that it appears to have no equity in when there is an ongoing crisis at our southern border?” The DHS chief said he was not aware of Jankowicz’s comments about Hunter Biden and Steele when he hired her, and he also said he did not hold deliberations about her hiring.
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