America First Legal (AFL) has obtained documents through litigation against the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), shedding light on actions taken by the agency surrounding the 2020 election.
The documents show that CISA flagged text messages expressing support for President Donald J. Trump for potential censorship. Even after the election, CISA appeared more focused on reinforcing Director Krebs’s narrative of the election’s security rather than objectively investigating its integrity.
Brian Scully, a DHS Countering Foreign Interference Task Force member at CISA, sent an email containing screenshots of fundraising texts for President Trump and the #StopTheSteal effort on Monday, November 9, 2020. Scully noted in his email that this was a fundraising message related to the “stop the steal” movement.
A colleague at CISA responded, indicating an interest in handling the matter or at least being informed about it. The exchange suggests that CISA was actively considering taking action to censor conservative, pro-Trump speech.
Furthermore, post-election, CISA continued to collect reports of “misinformation and disinformation” through official channels and third-party fact-checkers. Despite acknowledging the increased risks associated with the widespread adoption of mail-in voting during the 2020 election, CISA officials seemingly dismissed all suspicions of fraud as part of a “False Narrative” requiring “counter-messaging.”
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