{"id":210929,"date":"2022-05-09T12:01:06","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T11:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=210929"},"modified":"2022-05-09T04:07:10","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T03:07:10","slug":"homeland-securitys-disinformation-board-is-even-more-pernicious-than-it-seems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/05\/homeland-securitys-disinformation-board-is-even-more-pernicious-than-it-seems\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeland Security’s “Disinformation Board” Is Even More Pernicious Than It Seems"},"content":{"rendered":"

The power to decree what is “disinformation” now determines what can and cannot be discussed on the internet. It is now in the hands of trained disinformation agents of the U.S. Security State. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Official government portrait of Nina Jankowicz, appointed to serve as Executive Director of the new \u201cDisinformation Board\u201d to be housed within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (posted by Jankowicz to Twitter)<\/p><\/div>\n

4 May 2022 – <\/em>The most egregious and blatant<\/strong> official U.S. disinformation campaign in years took place three weeks before the 2020 presidential election. That was when dozens of former intelligence officials<\/a> purported, in an open letter, to believe that authentic emails regarding Joe Biden’s activities in China and Ukraine, reported by <\/a>The New York Post<\/a><\/em>, were “Russian disinformation.\u201d That quasi-official proclamation enabled liberal corporate media outlets to uncritically mock and then ignore those emails as Kremlin-created fakes, and it pressured Big Tech platforms such as Facebook and Twitter to censor the reporting<\/a> at exactly the time Americans were preparing to decide who would be the next U.S. president.<\/p>\n

The letter from these former intelligence officials was orchestrated by trained career liars \u2014 disinformation agents \u2014 such as former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. Yet that letter was nonetheless crucial to discredit and ultimately suppress the New York Post<\/em>‘s incriminating reporting on Biden. It provided a quasi-official imprimatur \u2014 something that could be depicted as an authoritative decree \u2014 that these authentic emails were, in fact, fraudulent.<\/p>\n

After all, if all of these noble and heroic intelligence operatives who spent their lives studying Russian disinformation were insisting that the Biden emails had all of the “hallmarks” of Kremlin treachery, who possessed the credibility to dispute their expert assessment? This clip from the media leader in spreading this CIA pre-election lie \u2014 CNN \u2014 features their national security analyst James Clapper, and it illustrates how vital this pretense of officialdom was in their deceitful disinformation campaign:<\/p>\n