Posted on 05/03/2022 3:00:14 AM PDT by Libloather
WASHINGTON - The Biden administration’s new Disinformation Governance Board may be illegal and subject to a vote in Congress, a Republican senator is warning Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
In a letter to Mayorkas Monday, Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) outlined a legal critique that could set in motion the board’s undoing - as the White House sought to tamp down public concern about the Big Brother-like panel and its controversial head, who has her own past of spreading disinformation.
Hagerty wrote that the board may violate the Antideficiency Act, which says the executive branch can’t spend money unless Congress authorizes it, and that its creation also may be subject to the Congressional Review Act.
“Plainly, this DHS Disinformation Governance Board imposing significant constraints on the bedrock of American values and freedoms and new costs on the American people requires congressional review and may be a violation of the Antideficiency Act,” Hagerty wrote.
The board - likened by Republicans and also some left-wing and libertarian critics to an Orwellian “Ministry of Truth” - was announced last week shortly after billionaire Elon Musk reached a deal to buy Twitter to implement pro-free speech and anti-censorship reforms.
The board would be led by Nina Jankowicz – a disinformation expert who repeatedly cast doubt on The Post’s reporting on documents from Hunter Biden’s laptop, which the Washington Post and New York Times belatedly verified. She has also come under fire for her own postings to social media including a TikTok in which she jokes about free speech and fake news in a parody of the “Mary Poppins” classic “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.”
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If something illegal is voted for then ok...
Something about the right to disseminate chosen information and publishing it. I read somewhere, where I could do that without the government telling me that I can’t.
However, I can’t quite remember where I read that I can do that. Somewhere, hmmmm.
It’s like arresting Capone on failing to report income/pay taxes to the IRS. Prosecute based on the easiest indictment first and see if that resolves the larger problem.
So the same people that said Trump was colluding with Russia and the election was the fairest ever, are now gonna tell us what to believe? WTF!
Sigh ... another Republican ‘Chamberlain’ issuing a strongly worded letter, which will be read by a cipher in Mayorkas office and then filed in the circular file. Since the rule of law means nothing to most Ds, why would a fanatic like Mayorkas give a flying fook about this? Remember to a democrat especially a D politician the words honor, patriotism, and ethics are just entries in a dictionary.
It's an Alinsky meter that measures projection.
“If something illegal is voted for then ok..”
If it is illegal and is voted for, if the Republicans take the house and senate in November, they should initiate impeachment of the President, VP and bring up criminal charges against everyone who voted for it.
Oh ye, I heard it since Trump was elected.
“Oh ye, I heard it since Trump was elected.”
We heard this since Reagan was elected.
Her highness Hillary Clinton looks on while peasant in mask tends to her gown.
She’s hideous in every way.
Of course its illegal. 🙄
What is the deal with her chin? This bitch needs some reconstruction bad.
“I Don’t Feel Noways Tired”
And...they don’t care.😖
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