In an apparent blow to the disinformation-censorship complex, the State Department’s Global Engagement Center has shut down, its website reports. (The GEC’s operation was not renewed in the new National Defense Authorization Act.)
The GEC ostensibly exists to counter “disinformation” abroad. Among its other activities, it also worked with social media companies within the U.S. to deboost or ban accounts posting material that was not in line with government messaging.
While the GEC is in the top ranks for the “worst offender in U.S. government censorship [and] media manipulation,” which was how Elon Musk characterized the agency last year, it is unfortunately one of many government agencies concerned with what Jen Easterly has called our “cognitive infrastructure,” or in layman’s terms, “thought control.” While Easterly is presently the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), she had earlier played a leading role in launching the GEC in 2016 from her perch as the “special assistant to President Barack Obama and senior director for counterterrorism,” together with Joshua Geltzer, who later headed the Biden Administration’s response to the events of January 6, 2021. Easterly and Geltzer oversaw the launch of Obama’s GEC and his “Countering Violent Extremism-Interagency Task Force” during a high-powered coven of deep state actors and Silicon Valley in early January 2016—out of which came the narrative that ISIS online activity was synonymous to those of the “far right.”
As the narrative of the Russian GRU “hacks” of the DNC database built later in 2016, operatives in U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM), CENTCOM and U.S. Cyber Command shifted their online ISIS counterinsurgency campaign called “Joint Task Force-Ares” into the “Russia Small Group” (later rebranded as the “Election Security Group”). This gave wind to the fatuous claims of Nina Jankowicz and her “Disinformation Governance Board” (DGB). Jankowicz, who had previously been a propagandist for the Ukrainian based neo-Nazi Azov Brigade, then attempted to ride the wave of neo-McCarthyism against Russia, on behalf of her controllers, to become the frontrunner in the creation of the DGB.
Following the outrage of the creation of such an Orwellian agency in a country that prides itself on its First Amendment, the office of DHS Intelligence Analysis attempted to calm those fears within the “deep state.” According to CBS at the time:
“As for social media, DHS’ Office of Intelligence and Analysis currently conducts open source analysis of social media threats that pose a risk to the homeland. But DHS officials tell CBS News that engagement with social media threats will remain exclusively within I & A.”
At the time of the DGB proposal, DHS I&A was headed by Ken Wainstein, former General Counsel of the FBI, Chief of Staff to former FBI Director Robert Mueller, and former Homeland Security Advisor under his appointment by George W. Bush, where he had overseen the transformation of the “Continuity of Government” policy—the core of the “secret government” apparatus.
Meanwhile, Jen Easterly—the daughter of Noel Koch, who was involved in the covert operations of this secret government apparatus during the Reagan (Bush SR) era by forming the Iran Contra apparatus and funding of the Mujahadeen that later became ISIS—remains in control of CISA, and its “cognitive infrastructure.”
