'Whose Idea Was It?': Hawley Grills Biden Official Over Scuttled DHS Disinformation Board?

At today's Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) about the now-defunct Disinformation Governance Board.

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[PsychicMike]

Why can't people in these departments just be transparent, honest and open? Is it because their intentions are nefarious, and cannot be revealed publicly?

[bound]

She’s claiming that their duty is to be transparent with the American people, however, she refuses to answer simple questions. This is what’s so frustrating about our system of governance.

[Pange]

How amazing that under oath they can avoid answering the questions!

[Skpt]

I love how she tries to butter him up at the start then he proceeds to tear her apart.

[part]

She's definitely a disinformation expert...Specifically at Creating Disinformation! FJB❤️🇺🇲

[markstahlhut]

Failing to give direct answers to congress should result in automatic dismissal.

[stevebass]

If a citizen was under oath and refused to discuss something we’d be in jail

[codegreeen]

“WE WERE DOING A WHOLE BUNCH OF SHADY STUFF AND YOU GUYS WERE NEVER SUPPOSED TO FIND OUT.” - what she was really saying.

[workingstiffdiogenes]

We need a law that when a public official testifies before Congress, they get a 1% pay cut for every question they don't answer.

[johnehrenreich]

Pretty sad that the people that would hire someone to a disinformation board and SAY they didn’t know about the person’s disinformation on Twitter and such. Then she says that they want to rebuild trust but can’t be trusted to give simple answers

[i-evi-l]

Hawley shoots as straight as it comes, regardless of his politics. Good job, sir, for serving Missouri and the USA well!

[logicomega]

holy crap, Josh Hawley is impressive. Very quick, logical, deliberate and intelligent. Nice to see we have a leader like that.

[fitts]

Every time I watch one of these committee hearings, I cannot believe that they let people sit there and swear an oath and then proceed to straight out

[light]

And the government is just full of people like her, tens of thousands of them, who just can't wait to open up ever more bureaus, boards, offices, departments, put themselves in charge, and start controlling all the unimportant people's lives (that would be you and me) in ever more excruciating detail. "We've done so much but we still have so much more to do" is their battle cry.

[jenni]

These freaking three letter agencies in our federal government need to go along with the majority of our federal government at this point. These people have forgotten who they work for and I think it's time they were reminded

[gamblerintimidator]

It's exhausting just listening to someone who can spend so much energy in not answering any questions. I would like to know how much we are paying her to not now anything going on around her.

[blairlechtenberg]

Josh Hawley is a superstar!! Every level of this current administration deserves questions and push back.

[RISaint]

Abolish every three letter agency and put it to the states.

Don’t need them. Never did.

[kutzbill]

Get them Josh! You got my vote for as long as you want it. From Rural Missouri.

[carsonkelly]

Couldn’t imagine being married to her and have her explain all the charges on our credit cards.