Tillerson spurns $80 million to counter ISIS, Russian propaganda
Source: Politico
The secretary of state won’t tap funding approved by Congress, angering officials.
Updated 08/02/2017 11:24 AM EDT
By David Priess
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is resisting the pleas of State Department officials to spend nearly $80 million allocated by Congress for fighting terrorist propaganda and Russian disinformation.
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Sources cited another sensitive factor at play: Russia. At one point during the discussions, Tillerson aide R.C. Hammond suggested the money is unwelcome because any extra funding for programs to counter Russian media influence would anger Moscow, according to a former senior State Department official.
"This is an extraordinary example of the dysfunction that is ripping through the State Department," said Brett Bruen, ...................
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The Global Engagement Center is an interagency unit based at the State Department that was created in spring 2016.........................
A Pentagon spending bill signed into law by former President Barack Obama in December broadened the center's mandate to include battling state-sponsored disinformation campaigns by countries such as China, North Korea and Russia. U.S. intelligence officials say Moscow used fake news reports and malicious Twitter accounts to influence the 2016 election, and lawmakers in both parties have called for a more robust U.S. response. ....................................
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/02/tillerson-isis-russia-propaganda-241218
Rex Tillerson is pictured here.
"There’s paranoia and inertia — decisions are not being made," said one State Department official familiar with the funding squabble. | Paul J. Richards/Getty Images
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the word democracy around the world....................why doesn't he just wear the f*cking medal that he got from his boss around his neck twenty/four seven----------
Who gives a fat flying f*ck what Moscow says or think, they are a f*cking criminal enterprise Tillerson, you worthless POS , I mean really, I may sound like a hawk, but when it comes to Russia and what they did, we are at f*cking war sh*t for brains.
How did you get past the senate for confirmation again--------------the rubber stamp method.
When you were a CEO of the biggest polluter in the world, did you or did you not as CEO protect those interests, is this not what the SEC of state suppose to do for this country going all the way back to the founding ass*****, or did you miss that section when in school, college --------------apparently so
