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Alarms Blare as DHS Slips Election Denier Who Defended 'QAnon Shaman' Onto Its Payroll
Metadata in a Homeland Security letter identified Karen DiSalvo as its creator, tying the agency’s funding threat to post-election paper-ballot audits.
Summary
An election-denying conspiracy theorist who apparently drafted a federal threat to withhold funding from states was quietly hired by the Department of Homeland Security.According to a Friday article by Democracy Docket, a letter from Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin threatening states seems to have been authored by Karen DiSalvo, a Pennsylvania attorney known for election-denial activism. DiSalvo was linked to the letter, which was s…