House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan subpoenas a former Biden administration official who oversaw the Department of Homeland Security's disinformation board.
Jordan, R-Ohio, called on Nina Jankowicz to appear before the committee for an April 10 deposition as Republicans scrutinize theDisinformation Governance Board that drew widespread GOP criticism after it launched last year.
The subpoena comes after Jankowicz “ignored voluntary requests for a transcribed interview,” Jordan said, citing two letters last year and three letters sinceOn Twitter, Jankowicz said she would comply with the subpoena, and defended her work at the agency. "I will happily testify to the truth of the Board under oath: That it was a working group meant to address disinformation that endangered Americans’ safety, and that — because of the Republican Party’s irresponsible lies about it — our democracy is less secure,"In response to a request for comment, Jankowicz told NBC News that"the abuse of congressional oversight powers is about to get wildly out of control" under Jordan.
Before her appointment to run the board, Jankowicz was a disinformation fellow at the Wilson Center, a Washington-based public policy think tank, where she studied the intersection of democracy and technology in Central and Eastern Europe. Jankowicz resigned in May after the board was paused amid criticism from congressional Republicans, who sought to pass
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