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House Judiciary report confirms Just the News reporting on DHS censorship

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Updated: June 26, 2023 - 7:28pm

An interim staff report from House Judiciary Committee Republicans confirms reporting that theDepartment of Homeland Security outsourced censorshipto third parties in order to avoid public outcry. Read our exclusive series from last year covering this issue.

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House Judiciary Weaponization of CISA interim staff report.pdf

https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/house-judiciary-report-confirms-just-news-reporting-dhs-censorship

THE WEAPONIZATION OF CISA:

HOW A “CYBERSECURITY” AGENCY COLLUDED WITH BIG TECH

AND “DISINFORMATION” PARTNERS TO CENSOR AMERICANS

Interim Staff Report of the

Committee on the Judiciary

and the

Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government

U.S. House of Representatives

June 26, 202

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This says it all DHS thinks it's their duty to control the minds of the people: First page

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

“One could arguewe’re in the business of critical infrastructure, and the most critical infrastructure is our cognitive infrastructure, so building that resilience to misinformation and disinformation, I think, is incredibly important.”

– CISA Director Jen Easterly, November 10, 2021.1

One could argue it's none of your business to interfere with anything a person chooses to believe or not believe!

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This is how CISA justifies its role as arbiter of truth, they just redefine what infrastructure is:

“One could argue we’re in the business of critical infrastructure, and the most critical infrastructure isour cognitive infrastructure, so building that resilience to misinformation and disinformation, I think, is incredibly important.”

– CISA Director Jen Easterly, November 10, 2021.1

The First Amendment recognizes that no person or entity has a monopoly on the truth,

and that the “truth” of today can quickly become the “misinformation” of tomorrow. Labeling speech “misinformation” or disinformation” does not strip it of its First Amendment protection. As such, under the Constitution, the federal government is strictly prohibited from censoring Americans’ political speech. The government also may not use third parties to bypass the First Amendment and conduct censorship by proxy.2

The Committee on the Judiciary and the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of

the Federal Government have been conducting an investigation into government-induced censorship on social media. Although the investigation is ongoing, information obtained to date has revealed that the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency(CISA)—an upstart agency within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)—has facilitated the censorship of Americans directly and through third-party intermediaries.

Founded in 2018, CISA wasoriginally intendedto be an ancillary agency designed to protect“critical infrastructure” and guard against cybersecurity threats.3 (And they are failing miserably at both, based on the current attacks on infrastructure and cyber)

In the years since its creation, however,CISA metastasizedinto the nerve center of the federal government’sdomestic surveillance and censorshipoperations on social media.4

By 2020 (Chris Krebbs started this), CISA routinely reported social media posts that allegedly spread “disinformation” to social media platforms.5 By 2021,CISA had a formal “Mis-, Dis-, and Malinformation” (MDM) team.6

In 2022 and 2023, in response to growing public and private criticism of CISA’s unconstitutional behavior,CISA attempted to camouflage its activities,duplicitously claiming it serves a purely “informational” role.7

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https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2023-06/House%20Judiciary%20Weaponization%20of%20CISA%20interim%20staff%20report.pdf

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HOLY SHIT, THESE PEOPLE ARE INSANE CRIMINALS!

This interim staff report details, among other things, that:

• CISA is “working with federal partners tomature a whole-of-government approach” to curbing alleged misinformation and disinformation.8

• CISA considered the creation of an anti-misinformation “rapid response team” capable of physically deploying across the United States.9

•CISA moved its censorship operation to a CISA-funded non-profitafter CISA and the Biden Administration were sued in federal court, implicitly admitting that its censorship activities are unconstitutional.10

• CISA wanted to use the same CISA-funded non-profit as its mouthpiece to “avoid the appearance of government propaganda.”11

• Members of CISA’s advisory committeeagonized that it was “only a matter of time before someone realizes we exist and starts asking about our work.”12

The Committee and the Select Subcommittee are responsible for investigating “violation[s] of the civil liberties of citizens of the United States.”13 In accordance with this mandate, this interim staff report on CISA’s violations of the First Amendment and other unconstitutional activities fulfills the obligation to identify and report on the weaponization of

the federal government against American citizens. The work, however, is not done. CISA still has not adequately complied with a subpoena for relevant documents, and much more fact-finding is necessary. In order to better inform the Committee’s legislative efforts, the Committee and Select Subcommittee will continue to investigate CISA’s and other Executive Branch agencies’ entanglement with social media platforms.

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