Posted on 06/28/2023 4:38:08 AM PDT by MtnClimber
A new report from a congressional committee reveals that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) actively outsourced its work on censoring so-called “misinformation” to outside groups, then covered up such efforts.
According to Just The News, the report from the House Judiciary Committee highlights the DHS’ Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and its “censorship operation,” which was formally assigned to a nonprofit group funded by DHS. This move came after a lawsuit was filed against DHS by the attorneys general of Louisiana and Missouri alleging violations of the First Amendment by the agency.
The agency handed such tasks over to the Center for Internet Security (CIS), and its Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) and Elections Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center (EI-ISAC). By doing so after the aforementioned legal action had taken place, the report states, DHS was “implicitly admitting that its censorship activities are unconstitutional.” CISA’s Cybersecurity Advisory Committee also established a subcommittee called “Protecting Critical Infrastructure from Misinformation & Disinformation.”
Notes from a spring 2022 meeting of the committee reveal that the committee members were “fully aware” of the “severe public outcry” when DHS initially announced its new “Disinformation Governance Board,” which was eventually shut down due to widespread backlash. As a result, DHS turned to third parties to implement a similar pro-censorship agenda in an attempt to avoid the same controversy.
Two of the leading figures of this attempt, former CIA legal advisor Suzanne Spaulding and CISA’s Election Security Initiative chief Geoff Hale, had openly “suggested designating the ISACs as the clearing house for information to avoid the appearance of government propaganda.” Spaulding later said in an email that it was “only a matter of time” before these efforts also became public, suggesting that committee members should be “proactive in telling our story.”
In its report, the Judiciary Committee said that CISA “still has not adequately complied with a subpoena for relevant documents, and much more factfinding is necessary.”
It is funny how anything the left wants to cover up becomes “misinformation”.
The corruption is a mile wide and bottomless. To understand what’s happening today ‘must reads’ are the books They Thought They Were Free and Rape of the Mind.
The intelligence agencies must be abolished and their employees forbidden to work in any other government job or contract position for 20 years.
CISA has been going around in Information Technology and Information Security circles and hosting day-long meetings to maintain certifications. Among the sessions they offer is stuff on “misinformation” and “disinformation” topics—how to identify and how to stop it.
Our government is absolutely disgusting. Remember, it is official disinformation to claim COVID was started by anything but a likely bat out of a cave, then it was official disinformation to say it was done by anything but a bat having sex with a pangolin.
The WORSE thing this country has done is to allow FEMALES to enter the INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY.
Sorry for the harsh comment, but I am female and that’s how I know how they think.
They think with a MATERNAL BRAIN and that does not work in the real world.
Look at this LESLIE WOOF at the FBI. HOW MUCH DAMAGE HAS SHE DONE JUST THINKING ABOUT ...POOR HUNTER...THE PRODIGAL SON WHO SHE WANTS TO PROTECT.
It’s just amazing how much DAMAGE that can do.
“...which was formally assigned to a nonprofit group funded by DHS.”
Ok..THERE is the PROBLEM. Federal agencies “fund” nonprofits!!!”
Disinformation is in the eye of the beholder.
Or media/marketing outlets.
CIA legal advisor Suzanne Spaulding... More agency scum surface.
Also when they denied that the ministry of disinformation existed.
Now they’re outsourcing it to the UN, the Secretary General of which would make Fetterman look smart.
They always use idiots whether they outsource or use their own idiots.
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