Posted on 11/17/2023 4:22:48 AM PST by MtnClimber
"If the administration does not believe Israel is committing war crimes," as several dozen State and USAID employees reportedly allege, "should it push to censor its own dissenting diplomats?" law professor asks.
Et tu, USAID?
The Biden administration's wide-ranging efforts against purported mis-, dis- and mal-information – through federal agencies, allied private organizations and the power of the purse – blew back on the president this week.
More than 100 employees of the State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development, which have a close relationship, reportedly signed an internal memo accusing President Biden of "spreading misinformation" about Hamas' Oct. 7 terrorist attack against Israeli civilians and accusing Israel of "war crimes."
The decision by dozens of staff to turn the MDM cannons inward on "the big guy" shows the peril of the administration's apparent strategy to render disfavored narratives on elections, COVID-19, Ukraine, Hunter Biden's laptop and climate change as not only factually wrong but illegitimate.
"The question is whether, under the administration's own standards, President Biden should now be banned or blacklisted" by social media "to protect what his administration has called our 'cognitive infrastructure,'" George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley, a recurring critic of the feds' MDM efforts, rhetorically asked in an essay for The Messenger.
Biden's hoisting by his own petard could also prove useful in ongoing litigation against what critics call the "Censorship-Industrial Complex," which encompass the Census Bureau, the departments of State and Homeland Security and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, such groups as the Virality Project and the Election Integrity Partnership, and many purported disinformation researchers and fact-checkers.
Shouldn’t the penalty be a long prison sentence just like the Hillary meme post did?
Folks often cite the FBI and CIA as being in serious need of defunding, but I would put the State Dept right up there with them as an epicenter of unremitting corruption.
I agree, State Department is a marxist threat.
I’ve concluded that the entire executive branch, including DOJ and the US military, is controlled by Xi.
“The question is whether, under the administration’s own standards, President Biden should now be banned or blacklisted” by social media”
comme Robespierre
“State Dept right up there with them as an epicenter of unremitting corruption”
They are the purist Marxists in all government employment.
The entire state department is one giant slush fund for the administration. Who needs congress, right?
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