CISA Was Asked About Help With Flagging Dominion Election Disinformation on Twitter, Debunks Of Project Veritas Videos

Last week, America First Legal (AFL) filed a class action lawsuit against entities and individuals involved in the Virality Project and Election Integrity Partnership on behalf of The Gateway Pundit founder Jim Hoft and co-director of Health Freedom Louisiana, Jill Hines. The lawsuit alleged that the defendants worked with the DHS’ Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Administration (CISA) to influence the 2020 presidential election, censor conservatives’ political viewpoints, and violate the First Amendment. Documents obtained in the lawsuit revealed violations of the federal records act and “pre-bunk” channels to “fact-check” content. The documents obtained showed that Brian Scully, head of the CISA’s Countering Foreign Influence Task Force, and his team communicated with third-parties about government-related work on the secure messaging app Signal, with the self-deleting feature enabled. That means that some of what they communicated could not be obtained. Using a private messaging app to communicate official business is also a potential violation of the Federal Records Act, AFL speculates. In one email, Scully wrote: “Apologies for delay getting these [names and phone numbers] to you, but we’ve been working on some legal and records management issues to get access to signal.” An email from Scully to then Twitter executive Yoel Roth on Nov. 3, 2020, election day, confirmed the communication outside official channels. Scully wrote: “We’re going to email only. We’ll only report critical items from outside email chains. We’ll continue to monitor the chat though.” The documents also revealed established “pre-bunk” protocols. On Nov. 5, 2020, two days after…CISA Was Asked About Help With Flagging Dominion Election Disinformation on Twitter, Debunks Of Project Veritas Videos