Wed Mar 8, 2023 – 4:19 pm EST
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – U.S. Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, issued a subpoena Monday to Nina Jankowicz, former executive director of the now defunct Disinformation Governance Board.
In a letter to Jankowicz, Jordan noted, “We have repeatedly sought information from you concerning your official actions and duties as a DHS employee and former Executive Director of the Board, including how the Board intended to define disinformation, how it planned to collect information and from what sources, how it anticipated countering disinformation, and how it proposed to protect First Amendment rights.”
According to Jordan, the Judiciary Committee asked Jankowicz to sit for a transcribed interview on several occasions, beginning in May 2022. This year, the committee asked Jankowicz for an interview in letters dated January, February, and March. However, Jordan maintains, Jankowicz “declined to comply voluntarily” with the request.
Reacting to the letter, Jankowicz tweeted that she would “happily testify to the truth of the Board under oath,” adding, “That [the board] was a working group meant to address disinformation that endangered Americans’ safety, and that — because of the Republican Party’s
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