New in PJ Media:
Well, will she sing? On Monday, the House Judiciary Committee subpoenaed Nina Jankowicz, the former head of the Biden regime’s ill-fated Disinformation Governance Board, as part of its ongoing investigation into how the authoritarian Left has weaponized the various agencies of the federal government to criminalize dissenting speech and rule half of the electorate outside the bounds of acceptable discourse.
The question “will she sing” is not in this case an old-fashioned way to ask if Jankowicz will talk and spill the beans on this authoritarian regime; since Jankowicz has been known to break into song over the pleasures of silencing dissidents, it’s a legitimate, literal question.
Jankowicz, unfortunately, is unlikely to give us another rousing musical tribute to censorship and authoritarianism, or even to appear at all. Judiciary Committee chairman Jim Jordan (R-Sanity) wrote to Jankowicz, admonishing her for her refusal to cooperate with the committee: “We have repeatedly sought information from you,” Jordan wrote, “concerning your official actions and duties as a DHS employee and former Executive Director of the Board, including how the Board intended to define disinformation, how it planned to collect information and from what sources, how it anticipated countering disinformation, and how it proposed to protect First Amendment rights. To date, however, you have declined to comply voluntarily with our request for a transcribed interview.”
This is odd behavior from the former speech honcho, as she seems anxious to clear her name and refute all the nasty and allegedly false allegations that patriots have made about her sinister board.
Jankowicz has, after all, launched a crowdfunding effort to finance a lawsuit against Fox News “for their malicious, reckless lies against me.” Among these alleged lies, Jankowicz asserts, is the claim that “the board was an Orwellian ‘Ministry of Truth,’” when actually, Jankowicz insists, it “had nothing to do with arbitrating or restricting speech.” That coincides with the claims of DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who maintained that the board would “not infringe on free speech… civil rights [or] civil liberties” because it would have been focused upon “disinformation” efforts arising outside the country, not domestically.
Belying that claim, however, is the fact that whistleblower documents released last year show that Mayorkas and Jankowicz lied to the American people about the board’s purpose and scope. Despite repeated denials, it was designed from the beginning to monitor and restrict the free speech of American citizens. On May 1, 2022, CNN’s Dana Bash asked Mayorkas, “Will American citizens be monitored?”
Mayorkas’ answer was as unequivocal as it was reassuring: “No. The board does not have any operational authority or capability. What it will do is gather together best practices in addressing the threat of disinformation from foreign state adversaries from the cartels and disseminate those best practices to the operators that have been executing in addressing this threat for years.” Okay, great.
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Linde B. says
Here is a question for the “Disinformation Experts”. How can any country stop disinformation in any other country from being published in newspapers or spoken
on newscasts, or entered online? Hmmm…
Methinks there is deliberate misinformation emanating from the “Disinformation Experts”. 🤪😜😝😈
OLD GUY says
Hey it is a good paying job and as a government worker you don’t have to do much.