Biden's controversial DHS 'experts' panel shuttered after being slapped with lawsuit
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The Department of Homeland Security is winding down a controversial experts group after a lawsuit from a conservative legal group who said it was in violation of federal law.
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But critics have said that the board was not a neutral body and was instead a partisan body. Critics highlighted former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and former CIA Director John Brennan as two of the figures they saw as objectionable due to their signing on to a letter questioning the veracity of the Hunter Biden laptop story.