The director of the agency described as the “nerve center” of the government’s censorship operations has dodged Congress’s questions about the agency’s role in censoring “election-related” speech four times, House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan alleges in a letter obtained exclusively by The Federalist.
Jordan alleges that Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Director Jen Easterly has avoided answering questions from Congress about the extent to which CISA works in conjunction with federal and state governments to “censor lawful speech.”
Under Easterly’s leadership, “CISA is again reportedly working with Democratic-led states to censor election-related speech in the lead-up to the 2024 presidential election,” the letter states.
Jim Jordan letter to CISA D… by The Federalist
As I previously uncovered, the key swing state of Pennsylvania’s newly created “Election Threats Task Force” is working “closely” with CISA as part of its efforts to “mitigate threats” to elections, such as speech it deems “misinformation.”
Jordan alleges that Easterly was invited “to testify at a hearing in July 2024 regarding your role in these efforts. After two weeks of discussion with CISA to arrange your testimony, your staff claimed — for the first time — that you were scheduled to be out of town on the date of the potential hearing.”
The letter claims the committee offered three additional dates to reschedule the hearing, but Easterly “waited for over a month to again claim” she was “unavailable on all of the dates offered by the Committee, and refused to provide any dates” on
