Newly released emails show that an anti-free speech State Department subagency faced scathing accusations of “targeting Americans” through alleged taxpayer-funded plots.
Journalist Matt Taibbi published a May 2019 email exchange between a Democratic Senate staffer and an unnamed official at the Global Engagement Center (GEC). The emails show that the two discussed allegations that the infamous government agency weaponized taxpayer money to target American journalists and academics. Taibbi raised the alarm that even Democrats have blasted GEC over disturbing reports it is colluding with entities to censor Americans on social media.
According to screenshots shared by Taibbi, Alex Carnes, then a Senate Appropriations Committee staffer, reached out to the GEC asking it to respond to allegations of impropriety stemming from a taxpayer-funded group. Carnes…
