Are we sure this time? Are we 4Imprint certain?
After all, we celebrated the end of the Global Engagement Center in December, only to discover a month later than it had metastasized throughout the State Department as “the Counter Foreign Information Manipulation & Interference Hub (R/FIMI).” Its mission sounded very, very familiar to Matt Taibbi at the time:
The Counter Foreign Information Manipulation & Interference Hub, or “R/FIMI,” is the Global Engagement Center. Despite Republican determination to kill the agency, GEC lives, brazenly and in the open.
It gets worse. In case you were under the illusion that government employees are grownups and would never play games with taxpayer money, GEC staff didn’t just move funds and change a name. According to one Hill source, they took GEC employees from one location and physically scattered them through…
