Biden’s ex-‘disinformation’ czar Nina Jankowicz subpoenaed to appear before Congress

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) subpoenaed the former head of President Joe Biden’s defunct “Disinformation Governance Board” to appear for deposition before Congress.

The Judiciary Committee has sought to investigate the Department of Homeland Security’s governance board, which was dissolved in August 2022 after being formed in April 2022 and aimed to combat purported disinformation threats to the United States. Jordan fired off a subpoena on Monday to Nina Jankowicz, the researcher who, for a short time, oversaw the board and came under fire from Republicans for allegedly promoting censorship and conspiracy theories online.

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“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,” Jordan wrote to Jankowicz in a letter. “We first wrote to you on May 5, 2022, requesting your voluntary cooperation with our oversight of the Board, its operations, and your work as Executive Director.”

“In a subsequent letter dated December 1, 2022, we again requested that you provide documents and appear for a voluntary transcribed interview with the Committee,” the letter continued. “We reiterated our request for a voluntary transcribed interview in the 118th Congress in letters dated January 27, 2023, February 16, 2023, and March 1, 2023. To date, however, you have declined to comply voluntarily with our request for a transcribed interview.”

Jankowicz was in office between April 2022 and May 2022, upon the governance board being “paused.” She was immediately slammed by Republican lawmakers, who alleged that the then-official would be biased against conservatives because of her prior social media posts and questioning of the authenticity of Hunter Biden’s laptop in the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election.

Jankowicz also cast doubt on the COVID-19 lab leak theory, which the Energy Department now determines to be the most likely cause for the spread of the virus, and promoted since-debunked claims that sought to link former President Donald Trump to the Russian government, the Washington Examiner first reported.

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“I am ready to continue to stand up for the truth, as I have done my entire career, and I will not be cowed by conspiracy theories or intimidation. I am extremely proud of my service to my nation,” tweeted Jankowicz on Monday evening.

“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,” she added.