Showing posts with label State Department. Show all posts
Showing posts with label State Department. Show all posts

Dec 19, 2024

Congress’ 1,500-page spending bill hides a sneaky reprieve for federal censors


Benjamin Weingarten: Congress’ 1,500-page spending bill hides a sneaky reprieve for federal censors


'...But like other parts of the fed-led censorship apparatus, the interagency entity underwent civil rights-eviscerating mission creep, expanding its mandate to suppress the speech of Americans guilty of wrongthink.

The evidence of this emerged in Daily Wire v. State Department, whose plaintiffs allege that the GEC’s funding, promoting and marketing of internet “risk-raters” Global Disinformation Index and NewsGuard amounted to First Amendment-violating censorship-by-proxy.

These groups aim to purge purported mis- and disinformation by threatening the business models of outlets that publish news and views they deem illegitimate.

They do so by starving those outlets of vital ad revenue, placing them on de facto blacklists that companies use in determining where not to advertise, to protect “brand safety.”...'




Reference: nypost.com
Tags: Fed-led censorship apparatus against Trump,Anti-Trump Collusion,First Amendment-violating censorship-by-proxy, State Department,Continuing Resolution Budget Spending Bill,


Apr 13, 2024

Diversity chief who espoused anti-American 'Marxist dogma' will 'destroy the State Department'


Diversity chief who espoused anti-American 'Marxist dogma' will 'destroy the State Department'


'Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the State Department's new senior DEI hire will "destroy" the foreign affairs agency and make America "less safe"...Carr Johnson's hire was part of the "Biden administration's core commitment… to inflict a divisive, un-American, Marxist dogma on the American people." "I don't think [the State Department] frankly believes it. I think they're catering to the progressive left of their base in an election year, and the harm is that they will destroy the State Department'


Reference: www.foxnews.com
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Sep 13, 2017

Clinton State Department silenced them on Benghazi security lapses, contractors say



'...Security at the State Department's Benghazi compound was so dire that another contractor was brought in to clean up the mess just two weeks before the 2012 terror attack – and was later pressured to keep quiet by a government bureaucrat under then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, according to two men from the American security company...'


Reference: www.foxnews.com
Tags: State Department, Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State, Benghazi,