A former FBI intelligence chief said that the Democrats and Clinton campaign in 2016 used “contrived disinformation” to try to sway voters into thinking that then-candidate Donald Trump was a Russian asset.
In response to the Department of Homeland Security’s announcement to create a Disinformation Governance Board, retired Assistant Director for Intelligence Kevin Brock said that the agency won’t reveal actual disinformation.
“I think that disinformation is in the eye of the beholder,” he told Just The News. “I think most people suspect that all of this information will be information promulgated by one political party rather than the other. And so the danger of a governance board like this is that it will be beholden to the party that’s in power in government at that time to silence or mute opposition viewpoints.”
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