Sheldon Whitehouse's DISCLOSE Act would not have prevented Jan. 6

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) seems to think the DISCLOSE Act is a political cure-all. His latest sales pitch is that, if adopted, it would help “the American people … find out who funded the Jan. 6 insurrection.”

It’s a good thing for him that the Disinformation Governance Board has been shelved because the bill would do nothing of the sort. Rather, the measure would expose the personal information of donors to law-abiding organizations and subject them to threats and violence by domestic extremists.