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Home Front: Politix
US delays intelligence center targeting foreign influence
2021-12-24
WASHINGTON (AP) — As Russia was working to subvert U.S. elections and sow discord among Americans, Congress directed the creation of an intelligence center to lead efforts to stop interference by foreign adversaries. But two years later, that center still is not close to opening.

Experts and intelligence officials broadly agree the proposed Foreign Malign Influence Center is a good idea. The U.S. has lacked a cohesive strategy to fight influence operations, they say, with not enough coordination among national security agencies. Adversaries that tried to interfere in the last two presidential elections continue to bombard Americans with disinformation and conspiracy theories at a time of peril for democracy in the U.S. and around the world.

But the intelligence community and Congress remain divided over the center’s mission, budget and size, according to current and former officials. While separate efforts to counter interference continue, a person identified this year as a potential director has since been assigned elsewhere and the center likely will not open anytime soon.
Posted by:Besoeker

#5  Time to Alinsky the FB-eye. Make them live by their own rules: issue a consent decree and oversee the complete rehabilitation of that fetid house
Posted by: Jumbo Hatfield4966   2021-12-24 13:55  

#4  Da Ferret & the rest of American Stasi are still putting the final touches on their Domestic Malign Influence Center
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2021-12-24 13:37  

#3  Wow. It just seems like if foreign interference is causing so much tsuris, physical, hand-marked, in-person paper ballots could put lots of minds at rest.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-12-24 07:41  

#2  Adversaries that tried to interfere in the last two presidential elections continue to bombard Americans with disinformation and conspiracy theories at a time of peril for democracy in the U.S. and around the world.

You mean the mainstream media and the U.S. intelligence community?

Remember the Wikileaks. They were caught red-handed spying on us, which we made 100% illegal. Nobody went to prison for it.
Posted by: Sheter the Lesser9291   2021-12-24 07:39  

#1  As Russia was working to subvert U.S. elections

Not much imagination required to see where this might lead.
Posted by: Besoeker   2021-12-24 07:30  

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