The United States celebrates itself as the land of the free and home of the brave. But the CIA, the intelligence agency run by the U.S. government, has instead pushed censorship and violent color revolutions around the world. Much of this was done through monies supplied via U.S. Agency for International Development or USAIDs– the State Department-affiliated program that has run into a buzzsaw under the Trump administration.
Here, Mike Benz, executive director of the Foundation for Freedom Online, tells the story of one of USAID’s most hideous endeavors — Internews. Founded in California in 1982, Internews claimed to be non-partisan. But the non-profit had a particularly cozy relationship with the Democratic Party. Not only did it collaborate with the Clinton Global Initiative and have Obama advisor Susan Rice on board, but it also drew money from the likes of Bill Gates and the Carnegie Corporation.
Its chief — Jeanne Bourgault — carved out an annual salary of $451,000 for herself, so this was, indeed, a choice racket. Information saves lives was the Internews slogan, but again, the Democratic Party wanted full control and to dictate what constituted legitimate information that should be spread. Censorship, as well as color revolutions, became part of the Internews legacy, as well as quite possibly money laundering out of the Cayman Islands. Benz gives us the bigger picture.
Mike Benz, founder of the Foundation for Freedom Online, sits down with Tucker Carlson to explain how USAID, the U.S. Agency for International Development, became a deep web — more like a hornet’s nest — pushing every facet of the leftwing agenda. Not only did this agency back transgenderism, but also online censorship, Black Lives Matter riots, unfettered immigration, George Soros’ leftist prosecutors and a global narcotics ring.
Obviously, the U.S. Constitution stands in way of a federal agency being so blatantly biased and political. So USAID adopted an ingenious workaround. The agency didn’t do the dirty work itself, but gave grants to thousands upon thousands of NGOs, or Non-Governmental Organizations, to take actions that USAID couldn’t legally do itself.
These workaround arrangements skirted the law, while grossly violating our nation’s principles and heritage. Here, in a two-hour conversation with Carlson, Benz relays some of the most egregious examples of what happened, drawing from his background as a State Department official.
One of the most dispiriting examples he cites: How the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) became the NGO used to push widespread online censorship. The ADL was founded to combat anti-Semitism, a worthy cause. But now this organization has morphed into something truly ugly and insidious — tearing down our Bill of Rights. Not acceptable in any shape or form!
Another NGO that actively censored individuals and news outlets: the Internews Network. Headed by Jeanne Bourgault, who was paid $500,000 annually, the Internews Network received $472.6 million from USAID to train foreign journalists and to police what it called “disinformation” at home.
What’s disinformation? That’s the codeword used by leftists to describe anything that’s conservative or moderate, anything that the leftists want to censor. In short, our tax money was being used to squelch our own freedom. Internews pushed Covid-19 propaganda, as well as pro-Ukraine and the usual climate change nonsense.
How did Bourgault score such a lucrative position? She paved the way for her own lucrative gig by working six years at USAID, before joining Internews Network in 2001. She is among the individuals profiled on the World Economic Forum (WEF) website. There, she advocates open borders and has worked cooperatively with George Soros’ Open Society Foundation.
Here she is at a World Economic Forum, preaching her “disinformation” rap. What a globalist shill!
