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Clinton Supporter Who Led Disinformation Board Until Resignation Says
She Wasn’t A Partisan Actor

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The woman who led the Biden administration’s Disinformation Governance
Board until resigning this week is claiming she was going about her
job in a nonpartisan way despite previously declaring publicly her
support for Democrat Hillary Clinton.

    “To say that I’m just a partisan actor was wildly out of context,”
the woman, Nina Jankowicz, said on MSNBC on May 18.

    “There are 250,000 employees at the Department of Homeland
Security, I was one of them. We all have different political
inclinations. And we all checked them at the door,” Jankowicz added on
CBS on May 19.

Official portrait of Nina Jankowicz. (@wiczipedia/Twitter)

The board was first disclosed by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro
Mayorkas during a congressional hearing in late April. He said it was
aimed at preventing false or misleading information from being used in
the electoral process ahead of the midterm elections.

The effort quickly drew criticism, in part due to Jankowicz’s past.

Jankowicz not only has donated to Democrat candidates, but volunteered
for Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign. She has also repeatedly
praised Democrat officials on social media while denigrating
Republican ones.

Jankowicz also in the past promoted dubious claims, including the
claim that reports on the laptop computer owned by President Joe
Biden’s son Hunter Biden were part of a Russian disinformation scheme.

Mayorkas called Jankowicz a “neutral” and “renowned” expert who was
“eminently qualified” to lead the board. Jankowicz worked for the
Woodrow Wilson Center, a think tank, before joining the
administration. But Mayorkas, under questioning, also said he was not
aware of all of Jankowicz’s posts, including statements she’d made
defending the dossier compiled by ex-British spy Christopher Steele
that has not held up under scrutiny.

    “I wasn’t adjudicating on what was true or false, but just trying
to equip people with information they could use in issues of national
security. I don’t think that my political convictions really come into
play here,” Jankowicz said on CBS when asked about the criticism of
her social media posts.

    “I think it’s quite ironic that Republicans would decontextualized
a couple of tweets in a career that has been marked by reasonableness,
nuance and bipartisanship.”

She also said that after her position became known, she received an
onslaught of violent threats.

The Department of Homeland Security, after reports emerged of
Jankowicz’s resignation, confirmed that the board’s work would be
“paused” while a group reviewed its mission.

The review is being conducted through the Homeland Security Advisory
Council, which includes figures that have also spread misleading
claims that some have described as disinformation.

A group of House Republicans, meanwhile, introduced a resolution on
Thursday that would compel the Biden administration to turn over
documents relating to the creation, implementation, and pause of the
board.

“While I welcome the news that the board has been paused, the
Administration hasn’t provided the American people with any
information on how long this pause will last, let alone how the board
was created, which specific activities it is intended to conduct, or
what prevents the board from violating the Constitution,” Rep. Dave
Joyce (R-Ohio) said in a statement. “I’m proud to introduce a
resolution of inquiry to demand answers from the Biden Administration
on this un-American creation. We cannot allow the federal government
to undermine the First Amendment with political tools that referee
free speech.”