My organization, Americans for Prosperity Foundation, has spent the same two years fighting DHS for documents on the federal board Jankowicz managed.
Taxpayers are unable to find out what legal authority DHS is exercising, and they aren't allowed to learn about the work being done with their tax dollars.
" DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas also said, "[I]t was quite disconcerting, frankly, that the disinformation work that was well underway for many years across different independent administrations was not guided by guardrails.
" In May 2022, Mayorkas told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee that the board was necessary to make sure ongoing disinformation work in DHS "Does not infringe on people's free speech rights" and that the board would be developing "Guidelines" and "Guardrails." That same month, the board was paused and then ultimately disbanded in August 2022.
We want to know what guidance that work currently operates under, but DHS refuses to provide the information.
A DHS Fact Sheet defending the creation of the Disinfo Board from May 2, 2022, said, "The Department has renewed its commitment to transparency and openness with the public and Congress." Much like the name "Disinformation Governance Board," these claims of commitment to transparency are Orwellian doublespeak.
Last month, Jankowicz and Álvarez-Aranyos sent a letter to Congress demanding they release their work on disinformation, while, at the same time, Jankowicz's former colleagues at DHS refuse to do so, despite being legally obligated to, unlike Congress.
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