Posted on 08/18/2023 5:05:11 AM PDT by CFW
A U.S. Department of State office called Global Engagement Center deliberated at length on how to respond to reporters asking about its funding of a group that tries to convince advertisers to shun predominantly conservative publishers, with the goal of starving them out of business.
The details that GEC staff discussed, however, are being kept secret and away from the prying eyes of the press and public. Heavily redacted documents were obtained this week by former Education Department lawyer Hans Bader as result of his Freedom of Information Act suit in the District of Columbia federal court against the State Department. The suit sought documents concerning the London-based Global Disinformation Index, a non-profit organization that claims its mission is "to disrupt the business model of disinformation."
The GEC is known for funding anti-populist internet games abroad, such as "Cat Park", which led the Foundation for Freedom Online to call the GEC "the global-facing political censorship arm of the Internet."
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Did we think God’s judgement would be painless ?
One step to fix that game playing would be to criminally prosecute those proven to have willfully violated the intent of the FOIA.
Trump indictments are not the work of an apolitical DOJ,
but of a salivating Democrat committee.
Not to provide justice, but to elect Biden.
They are colluding to rig the election
around a Democrat criminal conspiracy.
(Daniel Greenfield)
Yoo hoo, Fani.
One step to fix that game playing would be to criminally
prosecute those proven to have willfully violated the intent
of the FOIA
The RAT party has gone full Stalin. Or was that Lenin. Maybe Hitler. Oh yeah, Mao.
I guess the only solution left is to remove all rats from this sinking ship to save it.
FOIA is a fine concept.
But this kind of process-sabotage of FOIA requested documentation is abject deceit and arrogance by the Left, when they don’t just try to get around it like Hillary Clinton did by breaking the law and setting up her own illegal email server so her communciations wouldn’t be subject to FOIA requests.
I forget what documents were recently released (I think I heard it on the Devin Nunes podcast when he was speaking to Kash Patel) but nearly the entire document was redacted. They had whole pages redacted.
This could become the norm as government officials take the arrogant attitude of “here are your documents (that have 90% redacted) and if you don’t like it, I will challenge you to do anything about it” mindset. After years of court battles, someone might manage to get the document with only 70% redacted.
I find it interesting that the FOIA Act was originally proposed by a Democrat back during the Eisenhower Administration, and it has been largely a Democrat thing, but in the last ten years or so, has been increasingly used against the Left (at least that is my impression)
And with the Left, it is always issues with redacted content. I don’t recall nearly as many battles of redaction against documents released due to attacks on the right.
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Do we really need more examples of how republicans have sold us out long ago?
Yep. Full Stalinist.
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