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Today, America First Legal (AFL) released explosive new documents obtained through ongoing litigation against the U.S. Department of State’s Global Engagement Center (GEC), exposing a vast, government-backed censorship operation to silence Americans under the guise of “misinformation,” “disinformation,” and “malinformation.” The documents reveal a disturbing alliance between the GEC, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the British Foreign, Commonwealth, Development Office (FCDO), and media censorship organizations, all working in lock-step to manipulate public discourse, control media narratives, and suppress free speech.

The GEC, which was forced to shut down in December 2024, was designed to “combat foreign disinformation abroad.” However, through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, AFL uncovered that the GEC engaged in state-sponsored propaganda, repeatedly using willing participants from private media organizations. Further, AFL’s lawsuit against the GEC revealed that USAID had created an internal “Disinformation Primer” that explicitly praised private sector censorship strategies and recommended further censorship tactics.

TheGatewayPundit.com

A stunning email issued by a USAID official today will generate a national uproar and provoke another massive legal battle.

Politico obtained an email from a senior official at USAID ordering the remaining staff to convene at the agency’s former headquarters on Tuesday to destroy all remaining documents by either shredding or burning them.

USAID’s acting executive secretary Erica Carr told the staff to meet at the RRB 14th Street Lobby to “shred as many documents first, and reserve the burn bags for when the shredder becomes unavailable or needs a break.”

Carr also ordered staff to label the burn bags with the words “SECRET” and “USAID/B/IO/” in dark Sharpie, if possible. She also said to make sure the burn bags did not overfill and to close them with staples at the top.

TheGatewayPundit.com

The audit of USAID is complete.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has confirmed that the audit into the agency’s spending activities has finished, and 83 percent of programs will be canceled.

He made the announcement on X:

After a 6 week review we are officially cancelling 83% of the programs at USAID.

The 5200 contracts that are now cancelled spent tens of billions of dollars in ways that did not serve, (and in some cases even harmed), the core national interests of the United States.

In consultation with Congress, we intend for the remaining 18% of programs we are keeping (approximately 1000) to now be administered more effectively under the State Department.

Thank you to DOGE and our hardworking staff who worked very long hours to achieve this overdue and historic reform.

Michael Shellenberger, journalist, author and founder of PUBLIC discusses his investigative reports on the USAID's role in censorship and political interference. He reveals how USAID refused Elon Musk's access, leading to its shutdown. Shellenberger highlighted USAID's counter-populism efforts, including funding investigative journalism through OCCRP to undermine President Donald Trump. He also explains the Panama Papers and the Hunter Biden laptop controversy and how the deep state funded the Russia Hoax. We look into the broader implications of USAID's actions, including the erosion of free speech.

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•   Tucker’s Benz Interview: Is USAID Humanitarian or a Rogue CIA
  Tucker Carlson spoke with Mike Benz, exposing USAID not as the noble humanitarian organization it purports to be. That’s their sideline.  Is it a Humanitarian organization? Short answer . . . NO!
•   Both USAID and the CIA Were Behind the Impeachment of Trump in 2019
  Both USAID And The CIA Were Behind The Impeachment Of Trump in 2019 by Michael Shellenberger.  A US government-controlled group did the research that linked Rudy Giuliani to former Ukrainian prosecutors.

   

   

Tucker Carlson spoke with Mike Benz, exposing USAID not as the noble humanitarian organization it purports to be. That’s their sideline.

Is it a Humanitarian organization? Benz compared it to a Milton Friedman analogy: Milton Friedman gives this example about the pencil. … He talks about it in the context of libertarian economic theory. He says, look at this pencil. And he, you know, holds up a pencil and it’s got a lead tip and graphite and gum. And he goes, No. No single person in the world can make this pencil. The gum comes from trees in Malaysia and the lead comes from, you know, some mine in Africa. The graphite comes from graphite miners in South America. And it’s the magic of the market that makes it possible. You know, everyone is doing it for their own self-interest and economic gain. But it creates this magical web of cooperation where everyone profits. And that’s how we get cheap pencils in the U.S.

I think what we’re about to walk into on the flip side of that is that people have been lied to in this country where they thought that they’d been sold, that this was humanitarian aid, and cosigned it.

Mike Benz: “USAID is effectively a rent-a-riot operation. That raises questions about the Black Lives Matter protests.”

(0:00) The USAID Rabbit Hole Runs Deep
(5:29) Trump Is Performing Open Heart Surgery on the Country
(9:50) Is USAID Truly a Humanitarian Operation?
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— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) February 8, 2025

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The House of Representatives impeached President Donald Trump on December 18, 2019, after a White House whistleblower went public with evidence that Trump abused his powers by withholding military aid to Ukraine in order to dig up dirt on his rival, Joe Biden. In the complaint, the whistleblower claimed to have heard from White House staff that Trump had, on a phone call, directed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to work with his personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, to investigate Joe Biden and Hunter Biden. The whistleblower who triggered the impeachment was a CIA analyst who was first brought into the White House by the Obama administration.