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Congressional Probe into State Department’s Censorship Efforts: Key Revelations

The Biden administration hinted that it may attempt to obstruct a congressional investigation into efforts to censor right-leaning outlets, documents revealed.

In a letter to the House Small Business Committee Chairman Roger Williams (R-TX), the State Department informed investigators that they may be forced to view documents pertaining to a congressional probe into the agency’s support of censorship in an “in camera setting.” Such a threat could limit the committee’s access to documents in its probe of the Global Engagement Center, the State Department’s subagency that in recent years has emerged as a financial backer of censorship efforts.

The State Department’s letter came in response to the committee’s apparent release of “sensitive but unclassified” documents to the Washington Examiner. “I am writing to express the Department’s…

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