Internal security places CISA employees on administrative leave, and reviews the wrong information council
The Ministry of Internal Security confirmed on Tuesday that some employees of the CIS and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) who worked on “MIS-DIS-and empty information” had been placed on an administrative leave.
In a statement by Scripps News, the Assistant Minister of National Security Minister Tricia McLAGHLIN wrote that Cisa needs to “re -focus on its mission”, starting with the security of the elections.
“The agency assesses how its electoral security mission is to implement with a special focus on any work related to poor information and wrong information,” according to the statement.
The Minister of Internal Security for Internal Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, speaks to the senior writer in the Journal of Politico Akush Khardori during the annual September September 17, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
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Fox News Digital mentioned for the first time, Internal security In April 2022, Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas witnessed that the Ministry of Internal Security was creating a “Board of Directors of discrimination” to combat wrong information before the mid -term elections 2022.
While appearing in front of the sub -committee of the parliament’s credits, Mayorkas said that the “misinformation board” had been created to address the wrong information campaigns targeting minority communities.
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While the evaluation agency is taking place, the employees who worked on “wrong abuse, information, as well as foreign influence and misinformation will remain on an administrative leave, according to the statement.
He claimed that the Board of Directors is led by the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Defense for Policy Rob Silvars, the co -chair with the main vice -General of General Adviser Jennif Jaskel.
He stated that Nina Yankovic, who previously worked as a colleague in the field of misinformation at the Wilson Center, worked as CEO, Politico said.
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Bradford Betz of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.