Biden regime agrees to disband Homeland Intelligence Experts Group following lawsuit brought by America First Legal.
The Biden administration has agreed to shut down a nascent Department of Homeland Security intelligence “experts” group in the wake of a lawsuit brought by America First Legal (AFL).
AFL’s lawsuit from November claimed the Homeland Intelligence Experts Group was a partisan organization and not neutral, citing the fact that 98% the political contributions of those named to the group went to Democrats.
The Biden administration agreed to wind down the group within 30 days and surrender it documents to AFL contingent on the dismissal of its lawsuit.
“The Experts Group shall be wound down within thirty (30) days of the entry of the Order, it will not hold any future meetings, and the Department will not reconstitute the Experts Group inconsistent with the FACA or the Homeland Security Act of 2002. The Department will also provide the Experts Group meeting agendas and meeting minutes with participant identifying information redacted within fifteen (15) days of the entry of the Order,” it said.
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The Biden Admin will dissolve & disband its unlawful DHS Intelligence Experts Group stacked with deep state partisans like James Clapper and John Brennan following our lawsuit with @RichardGrenell
They are also turning over their internal docs to our possession: pic.twitter.com/vFK3uSszbF
— America First Legal (@America1stLegal) May 3, 2024
DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced the establishment of the Homeland Intelligence Experts Group in September 2023.
“The security of the American people depends on our capacity to collect, generate, and disseminate actionable intelligence to our federal, state, local, territorial, tribal, campus, and private sector partners,” Mayorkas had said in a statement.
The group had included highly political former intelligence officials like former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and former CIA Director John Brennan, who knowingly lied in a letter by 51 intelligence officials claiming Hunter Biden’s laptop story was “Russian disinformation.”
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🚨John Brennan and James Clapper are two of the leaders in the “Letter of 51” who used their “intelligence credentials” to mislead the American public on the veracity of the Hunter Biden laptop story ahead of the 2020 election. They… pic.twitter.com/dGW40xkUFV
— America First Legal (@America1stLegal) May 3, 2024
Immediately after DHS formed the Group, Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), and Roger Marshall (R-Kansas) sent a letter to Mayorkas demanding “DHS immediately rescind the appointments of these known purveyors of disinformation to the Homeland Intelligence Experts Group.”
“DHS formed this so-called ‘Homeland Intelligence Experts Group’ in September 2023, in its own words, ‘to provide advice and perspectives on intelligence and national security efforts,’” America First Legal wrote on X Friday.
“However, it was not actually intended to provide unbiased, expert advice to advance the Department of Homeland Security’s mission; instead, it was a completely partisan group designed to provide top cover for the Department’s radical agenda under the leadership of Secretary Mayorkas.”
AFL President and former Trump adviser Stephen Miller hailed the disbandment of the advisory group as a victory.
“As a result of our lawsuit in federal court, DHS is surrendering in total to our demands: they are closing down their new partisan intelligence board featuring Clapper and Brennan — which would have been used to promote censored, unethical spying, and gross civil rights invasions of political enemies — and they are surrendering their documents, handing them over to our possession. We won. We beat Biden and DHS,” he said in a statement.