WASHINGTON—Secretary of State Marco Rubio said this bombshell during Wednesday’s White House Cabinet meeting: “We had an office in the Department of State whose job it was to censor Americans.”
Rubio offered that he is surprised a federal agency monitoring the social media posts and commentary of American citizens is not a bigger story.
Maybe that’s about to change after Rubio claimed that at least one person at the Cabinet meeting was a target of an office formerly known as the State Department’s Global Engagement Center. Who is it? The Beltway loves a guessing game.
On April 16, the State Department posted an interview Rubio gave to former State Department official Mike Benz. During the exchange, Rubio spoke of how the State Department launched Global Engagement Center to combat messaging from al-Qaida, ISIS and other terrorist groups. But over the years,…
