DHS Secretary Says He Wasn’t Aware of Disinformation Board Leader’s Background

DHS Secretary Says He Wasn’t Aware of Disinformation Board Leader’s Background
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifies before the House Judiciary Committee on April 28, 2022. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images
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Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has said that at the time the DHS hired Nina Jankowicz to lead the newly created Disinformation Governance Board, he wasn’t aware of the videos of her singing or her false claims about Russiagate and other issues.

Since the DHS’s April 27 announcement of the Disinformation Governance Board and the appointment of Jankowicz, numerous videos and comments made by her have recirculated online—including her citation of Russiagate participant Christopher Steele as an authority on misinformation and her false claims in late 2020 that reports about Hunter Biden’s laptop were part of a Russian disinformation plot.