In a letter to Jankowicz, Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan stated that the Committee is investigating the Board's "creation, its activities, and related matters." Jordan said, "We have repeatedly sought information from you concerning your official actions and duties as a DHS employee and former Executive Director of the Board."
The Judiciary Committee had requested Jankowicz's "voluntary cooperation" in May 2022, but she declined to comply. The Committee requested documentation in December 2022, January, February, and March 2023, but again, Jankowicz refused to comply voluntarily.
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"Our oversight of the so-called 'Disinformation Governance Board' and its effect on Americans’ civil liberties fall squarely within the Committee’s jurisdiction and are 'subject[s] on which legislation could be had,'" Jordan's letter states.
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"The Biden Administration has shown that it has, at best, a tenuous relationship with the truth," citing Hunter Biden. "President Biden has repeatedly and falsely asserted that facts about Hunter Biden’s business dealings with corrupt Ukrainian and Communist Party-linked Chinese nationals are Russian disinformation," Jordan wrote.
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The Disinformation Governance Board was formed under the Department of Homeland Security in April 2022 to deal with misinformation and disinformation regarding Russia and illegal immigration. However, concerns were immediately raised about its goals and their impact on Americans' free speech.
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Jankowicz, as the head of the Board, came under fire for her comments on restricting speech and her attempt to discredit the New York Post's factual reporting on the Biden family's influence peddling and shady business deals. Jankowicz also promoted the Steele Dossier, which disinformation intended to discredit President Donald Trump.
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Jordan’s words from a letter sent to Jankowicz from April 2020, "The false and tawdry set of allegations about President Trump generated and pushed by Democrat operatives during the 2016 election cycle. On April 22, 2020, you promoted the false narrative that the Steele Dossier 'began as a Republican opposition research project.' In fact, it was 'Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee' that paid 'Fusion GPS [beginning] in April [2016] for research that eventually became the basis for the dossier.'
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"You later promoted an interview, with Steele that you described as providing 'some great historical context about the evolution of disinfo.' You also promoted other theories, for instance about disclosures made by then-Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, that turned out to be false."
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As part of her defamation lawsuit against Fox News, Jankowicz explained her role with the Disinformation Governance Board, saying, "my role was to make sure different entities across DHS were coordinated to bring the latest research to bear in the department and to help the department ensure that its policies about its existing counter disinformation work were grounded in American values, privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties. That's all the board was. It didn't have the ability or the authority to act on its own."
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