The Biden 'disinformation' screw-up

 Washington Examiner:

The embarrassing saga of the Biden administration’s Disinformation Governance Board has come to an unceremonious end. It shows once again how incompetent President Joe Biden and his staff truly are.

The Department of Homeland Security said on Monday that it isn’t ready to “provide recommendations on the Department’s most effective approach to disinformation threats” but that it has “concluded that there is no need for a Disinformation Governance Board.” In other words, the Biden administration tried to create this board without determining whether it was necessary.

It was the first in a series of mistakes. The second was naming Nina Jankowicz as the board’s executive director. Jankowicz was a “disinformation fellow” at the Wilson Center. That was supposed to mean she was an expert in recognizing and combating disinformation, but it meant something closer to the opposite. Jankowicz repeatedly spread disinformation about the Steele dossier, Hunter Biden’s laptop, and Iran’s attempts to undermine President Donald Trump during the 2020 election, among other things. Jankowicz only saw “disinformation” in stories that hurt Democrats. She was happy to spread disinformation when it hurt Republicans.

The backlash over a government agency creating a disinformation board run by a liberal promulgator of disinformation was swift, and the Biden administration meekly defended the project before shelving it. To hear Jankowicz tell it, the board itself was brought down by disinformation. In other words, this board, so critical to national security, was designed to combat disinformation, and the first “disinformation campaign” against it managed to shut it down.

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This looks like an attempt to label opposing views as a diabolical threat to the country instead of a debating point.  It never made any sense outside of Biden's liberal cocoon.