Homeland Security puts CISA employees on administrative leave, reviews the Committee on Disinformation
AND Homeland Security Department On Tuesday, he confirmed that some employees of the Cibernetic Security and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) who worked on “Mis-, Dis- and Malinformation” put on administrative leave.
In a Scripps News statement, DHS Assistant DHS Secretary Mclaughlinin wrote that Cisa must “divert to her mission”, starting with Optional security.
“Agency performs an estimation that she has made her election security mission With a special focus on any work related to the wrong, dis- and malinformation, “the statement said.
American Secretary -General Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas talks to a higher writer in the magazine magazine Ankush Khardori during the annual AI and the Technology Summit Politica on September 17, 2024. In Washington, DC (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
As Fox News Digital first reported, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testified in April 2022 that the Ministry of Homeland Security created the “Disinformation Committee” in the fight against misinformation on the eve of the Middle -Journalial elections in 2022.
During the appearance before the houses’ extracting, Mayorkas said The “Disinformation Management Committee” was created to resolve the campaigns for disinformation targeting minority communities.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
While the agency implements an assessment, the staff working on the alleged “wrong, dis- and malinformation”, as well as foreign influences and misinformation, will remain on administrative leave, the statement said.
The Committee was allegedly led by Police Policy Rob Silvers, Kopedi with the chief deputy advisor Jennifer Gaskill.
Nina Jankowicz, who had previously worked as a disinforming associate at the Wilson Center, was allegedly an executive director, Politico reported.
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Fox News Digital, Bradford Betz, contributed to this report.
