{"id":1495466,"date":"2022-05-28T07:45:39","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T11:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1495466"},"modified":"2022-05-28T07:46:04","modified_gmt":"2022-05-28T11:46:04","slug":"hunter-biden-laptop-hoaxer-tapped-to-assess-plagued-disinformation-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-laptop-hoaxer-tapped-to-assess-plagued-disinformation-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunter Biden Laptop Hoaxer Tapped To Assess Plagued \u2018Disinformation Board\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhunter-biden-laptop-hoaxer-tapped-to-assess-plagued-disinformation-board%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1495466&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/1280px-FEMA_-_38401_-_Homeland_Security_Secretary_Michael_Chertoff_Visits_Reliance_Center.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>After the Biden administration\u2019s proposal of a dystopian \u201cdisinformation board\u201d met with mockery and horror from First Amendment lovers, the Department of Homeland Security <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/05\/18\/technology\/disinformation-governance-board.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced<\/a> last week that its brainchild will now go through a \u201creview\u201d for up to 75 days. Directing the assessment along with former Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick is former Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, who has a detailed history of falling for or waving away security risks or political hoaxes.<\/p>\n<p>Chertoff, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/10\/06\/496749561\/once-clintons-prosecutor-during-whitewater-now-a-clinton-supporter\">endorsed<\/a> Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, was asked by NPR how he could reconcile supporting Clinton with his knowledge of her mishandling of secret emails, and essentially said that it didn\u2019t matter in terms of national security.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ability to spend an inordinate amount of time chasing small peccadilloes is a luxury we only have in a world at peace,\u201d he said. \u201cIn a world at war, you\u2019ve got to focus on the top priority which is protecting the United States and protecting our friends and allies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If mishandling of classified information didn\u2019t strike Chertoff as a red flag, neither did the Clinton campaign\u2019s instigation of the Russia collusion hoax against then-presidential candidate Donald Trump in 2016. Although Clinton\u2019s role in the hoax has long laid unaddressed under the nation\u2019s nose, Clinton\u2019s former campaign manager just named his boss responsible. Robby Mook testified last week in the trial of Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann that Clinton <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/judiciary\/3496659-how-the-sussmann-trial-revealed-hillary-clintons-role-in-the-alfa-bank-scandal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">approved the plan to implicate Trump in Russian collusion.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>So the man tapped to help assess the Orwellian \u201cdisinformation board\u201d endorsed the very woman who helped plant an incredibly damaging hoax aimed at undermining her opponent in the 2016 election. Not only that, Chertoff also cast doubt on reporting about Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop right before the 2020 election, <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/homeland-security-pick-to-clean-up-disinfo-board-pushed-disinfo-himself\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">calling<\/a> the idea that Biden abandoned the laptop at a repair shop \u201cpreposterous\u201d and blaming the Russians.<\/p>\n<p>The board was put on pause on the same day Nina Jankowicz, the Christopher Steele fangirl who was tapped to lead it, stepped down. Its creation roused fierce criticism in late April with Twitter posts likening it to an Orwellian <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackPosobiec\/status\/1519466910227726337\">Ministry of Truth<\/a> and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis calling it a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovRonDeSantis\/status\/1520068299417079808\">\u201cbelated April Fool\u2019s joke.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jankowicz herself fueled the outrage by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/white-house-disinformation-nina-jankowicz-tiktok\">ridiculous TikTok video<\/a> she released in February 2021 in which she outlined the alleged dangers of disinformation to the tune of \u201cSupercalifragilisticexpialidocious.\u201d This magnum opus led to skeptics fondly dubbing her \u201cScary Poppins.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2022\/05\/18\/disinformation-board-dhs-nina-jankowicz\/\">its media cheerleaders<\/a> have blamed the board\u2019s rough rollout on yet another \u201cdisinformation\u201d campaign against the proposed new office. As one reporter put it at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/press-briefings\/2022\/05\/18\/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-karine-jean-pierre-and-national-security-advisor-jake-sullivan-may-18-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">White House press briefing<\/a> earlier this month, \u201cSo if it\u2019s pausing because you think the board was mischaracterized, then the disinformation board is being shut down because of disinformation?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre stammered with her response and didn\u2019t answer the question.\u00a0The board\u2019s purpose, she insisted, is to monitor \u201cbad actors \u2014 including human smugglers, transnational criminal organization, and foreign adversaries \u2014 [who] could use disinformation to advance their goals.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Ominously, that list of \u201cbad actors\u201d is not exhaustive. As the Biden administration has proved by <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/05\/23\/no-matter-what-happens-to-bidens-disinformation-board-the-feds-are-spying-on-americans\/\">targeting<\/a> concerned parents at school board meetings as \u201cdomestic terrorists,\u201d anyone who challenges the administration\u2019s political agenda is a potential target for the board\u2019s war on free speech.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Beth Whitehead is an intern at The Federalist and a journalism major at Patrick Henry College where she fondly excuses the excess amount of coffee she drinks as an occupational hazard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the Biden administration\u2019s proposal of a dystopian \u201cdisinformation board\u201d met with mockery and horror from First Amendment lovers, the Department of Homeland Security announced last week that its brainchild<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":845,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1495466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/845"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1495466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1495466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1495466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1495466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}