by Wendi Strauch Mahoney at UnCover DC
“CISA, and its media allies, interfered with and undermined the integrity of the 2020 Presidential election,” according to evidence brought forward in an America First Legal lawsuit. The evidence is a part of AFL’s ongoing lawsuit against the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), filed on November 4, 2022. Notably, the organization also filed another parallel lawsuit against the U.S. Department of State on the same day. The lawsuits sought to compel the release of documents related to “the nature and extent of the federal government’s collusion with the media, NGOs, and Big Tech to censor information and shape public opinion.” Make no mistake; an apparatus was established to control how information was curated and meted out to the American public. It was and continues to be the very definition of information warfare. The goal? To capture and imprison minds.
The statement from America First Legal’s Senior Counsel and Director of Oversight, Reed D. Rubenstein, goes to the heart of the matter. The lawsuits allege systematic “bureaucratic abuse” from multiple individuals across multiple agencies working in tandem with Big Tech, legacy media, and other useful proxies to avoid public and legal scrutiny. As such, these officials have, in many cases, managed to successfully propagandize information to serve their political goals, all while staying under the radar. In the case of this latest tranche from AFL, the 2020 election was their target. Rubenstein explains:
“The terms “misinformation”, “disinformation,” and “malinformation” are so dangerously vague that they invite bureaucratic abuse. Based on the evidence disclosed to date, these terms are functioning as the pretext for domestic propaganda operations. State and CISA are not ministries of “truth”—the public has a right to know precisely who decides what information to censor, and how the government is using its private sector allies to shape public opinion.“
The newly released documents confirm prior findings and reveal that CISA was withholding knowledge of election administration issues, such as the security of mail-in ballots. Unfortunately, the information CISA withheld was crucial to know about during the election season. CISA and other agencies repeatedly misled the American public about various election-related topics; topics could have swayed public opinion and maybe even affected the results of the 2020 election.
According to AFL, CISA knew of…
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