At today's Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem told Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) she's uncovered "thousands of documents" showing censorship committed by the DHS under former Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas.
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00:01Secretary Mayorkas told us repeatedly that there was no censorship going on, the CISA wasn't doing anything, they weren't involved with speech.
00:09We know from the Twitter files they were.
00:11Have you uncovered any internal communications or activities that contradict their testimony with regard to the government being involved in censorship?
00:20Yes, sir. We have literally found thousands of documents that have proven that they were involved in censorship and policing speech.
00:28We will be unveiling these to this committee and making sure we're exposing what CISA was doing with a vast majority of its time of certain employees.
00:38And some of the discussion I think we'll have here today is about getting CISA back on mission and some of the reductions in staff that have been over there.
00:45And that's reflective in the fact that many of them were doing work that they shouldn't have been doing.
00:49And I hope you'll look at our bill, the Risky Research Review Act.
00:53Administrations do a lot of things and a lot of good things and then they go away when the next administration comes in.
00:58The good thing about this legislation, it would be a presidential commission of scientists to define in a continual basis what is or isn't gain of function, to rule on that.
01:08It's been voted in a bipartisan way. It was a unanimous vote out of this committee.
01:12It's one of the few things in Congress we actually, I think, have bipartisan support for.
01:16So we hope the administration will look at that and consider making a public endorsement of that.
01:20That way we can make permanent the things you're trying to do to constrain gain of function.
01:24Thank you for that, your testimony. And with that, I recognize Senator Peter.