U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Chris Wray Department of Justice (DOJ) discussed the Election Threats Task Force during a recent meeting.
According to a transcript of the meeting, Garland said the reason for the meeting was the “dangerous increase in violent threats against public servants, the ones who administer our elections.”
“Those threats endanger our democracy itself,” he claimed.
Garland also explained that federal agencies will work to combat “malign foreign influence and cyber-enabled campaigns.”
“The Justice Department recognizes the urgency of these threats and we are prepared to confront them,” Garland stated.
Representative Dan Bishop (R-NC) said the statement was code for “We’re getting ready to censor political speech.”
Discussion of the Election Threats Task Force follows the recent disbandment of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Intelligence Experts Group.
This group was dissolved after America First Legal filed a lawsuit alleging that it was a “deeply partisan group designed to provide top cover for the Department’s radical agenda under Secretary Mayorkas.”
While the group was established to “provide advice and perspectives on intelligence and national security efforts,” it instead served partisan efforts, AFL wrote.
American Faith previously reported that DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) censored social media posts that questioned election integrity and mail-in voting during the 2020 election.
Leading up to the 2020 election, CISA’s Election Integrity Partnership (EIP) targeted “narratives,” AFL explained at the time.
CISA also used the consulting firm Deloitte to censor posts that questioned mail-in ballots’ integrity.
Deloitte shared with CISA that “POTUS accused the ‘fake news’ of a ‘corrupt media conspiracy’ to use COVID-19 pandemic coverage to influence the election, claiming ‘the topic will totally change’ after Election Day.”
The firm also reported to the agency that Twitter flagged Donald Trump’s post that there are “big problems and discrepancies with Mail-in Ballots.”
