The point is that anybody can make baseless insinuations about what a board appointment means that have nothing to do with the actual qualifications of the person.
Like how some of OpenAI's current challenges include a) not leaking everything they create to the PRC and b) not having their tools abused for disinformation campaigns, so they appointed someone with leadership experience in keeping secrets from the PRC and combating disinformation campaigns.
Or did you mean "NSA man bad"?