An obscure agency within the Department of Homeland Security was used to censor social media and news coverage during the 2020 presidential election, a new congressional report reveals.
“The House Judiciary Committee and the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government released an interim staff report detailing how the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) — an agency within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) originally intended to protect pipelines and other critical infrastructure from cyberattacks — expanded its mission to surveil and censor Americans’ speech on social media,” the Judiciary Committee announced in a statement.
The report, “The Weaponization of CISA: How a ‘Cybersecurity’ Agency Colluded with Big Tech and ‘Disinformation’ Partners to Censor Americans,” outlines “collusion between CISA, Big Tech, and government-funded third parties to conduct censorship by proxy and cover up CISA’s unconstitutional activities,” the Committee reports.
In the wake of the release of information by new Twitter CEO Elon Musk, detailing how the platform’s previous management colluded with government officials to censor political criticism, the Judiciary Committee and its Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government have been investigating the alleged First Amendment violations.
“Although the investigation is ongoing, information obtained to date has revealed that the CISA has facilitated the censorship of Americans directly and through third-party intermediaries,” the Committee reveal.
According to the Committee, the report details how:
CISA considered the creation of an anti-misinformation “rapid response team” capable of physically deploying across the United States.
CISA moved its censorship operation to a CISA-funded non-profit after CISA and the Biden Administration were sued in federal court, implicitly admitting that its censorship activities are unconstitutional.
CISA wanted to use the same CISA-funded non-profit as its mouthpiece to “avoid the appearance of government propaganda.”
Members of CISA’s advisory committee agonized that it was “only a matter of time before someone realizes we exist and starts asking about our work.”
In response to mounting public scrutiny, CISA scrubbed its website of references to its domestic surveillance and censorship activities.
They keep telling us about the smoke we’re seeing is from Canadian wildfires. I haven’t seen them, but I don’t doubt they’re happening. Kinda feel the same way about the 2020 elections. Lots of little things, seemingly unrelated,but a result that just didn’t seem right. Coming off all the lies of COVID, maybe my BS meter was picking up something.
Gonna rerun for 2024??