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2017 National Defense Authorization Act contains the Countering Foreign Propaganda and Foreign Disinformation Act ("quietly slipped in"). This tracks the language of HR 5181, with which we are all familiar because Q posted a link to it.

tl;dr: see opinion at the end of the post.

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2017 NDAA

https://www.congress.gov/114/crpt/hrpt840/CRPT-114hrpt840.pdf

SEC. 1287. GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT CENTER. p 551

Specific changes from HB 5181:

• NDAA does not include HR 5181 Section 1 "Short Title" or Section 2 "Sense of Congress"

Establishment of the Global Engagement Center:

Drops naming the Director of National Intelligence and the Broadcasting Board of Governors in establishing the Center.

Functions:

• Changed "collect, integrate, and analyze" to "analyze".

• Dropped "use of covert or clandestine special operators and agents to influence targeted populations and governments".

• Dropped coordination with "international organizations and entities such as the NATO Center of Excellence on Strategic Communications, the European Endowment for Democracy, and the European External Action Service Task Force on Strategic Communications" and retains coordination with "United States allies and partner nations".

• Added "Maintain, collect, use, and disseminate records (as

such term is defined in section 552a(a)(4) of title 5, United States Code) for research and data analysis of foreign state and

non-state propaganda and disinformation efforts and communications related to public diplomacy efforts intended for foreign audiences. Such research and data analysis shall be reasonably tailored to meet the purposes of this paragraph and

shall be carried out with due regard for privacy and civil liberties guidance and oversight.

Composition:

• Changed "The Secretary of State shall appoint [Coordinator]" to "[Head of Center] shall be an individual who is an official of the Federal government official, who shall be appointed by the President"

• Added "The President shall designate a senior official to develop guidance for the Center relating to relevant privacy and civil liberties laws and to ensure compliance with such guidance."

• Dropped the "Steering Committee" whichy had included appointees from "Director of National Intelligence, the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, and the Chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors."

• Dropped "the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs" as the chairman of the Steering Committee.

• Changed everyone else but the Head of Center and the civil liberties guidance official to "Employees of the Center".

• Dropped the Director and other personnel appointed by the Steering Committee chairman and approved by the Steering Committee "without regard to the civil service laws and regulations"

• Retained the Federal employees detailed to the center.

• Added "personal service contractors…to obtain specialized skills or experience or to respond to urgent need".

• Added only 50 citizens and aliens may work as personal service contractor at any time.

Transfer Of Amounts Authorized:

• Added authorization an amount not to exceed $60,000,000 to be transferred from Department of Defense funding to the State Department for operation, but only if the total amount authorized is below $80,000,000 for each year.

• Dropped appropriation of $20,000,000 to the Secretary of State for the Center operations.

Information Access Fund:

• Unchanged, but note this is the section where "civil society groups, media content providers, nongovernmental organizations, federally funded research and development centers, private companies, or academic institutions" are paid to identify and counter "misinformation and disinformation" both abroad and domestically.

• Adds requirements to check "bona fides" of grantees.

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Limitation:

• Adds "None of the funds authorized to be appropriated or otherwise made available to carry out this section shall be used for purposes other than countering foreign propaganda and misinformation that threatens United States national security."

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Conclusion:

Significant changes were made to the House Bill. Considering the military vs CIA conflict it seems like the military won bigly. The Steering Committee and Coordinator appointed by many intelligence agencies were replaced by a Head of the Center appointed by the Commander in Chief, and the State Department picked Director position is gone. Specific mention of globalist and CIA aligned entities were removed. Overall the structure seems more military with definate responsibility assigned to its leader, rather than a cluster of committees. Depending on how much money was finally used to run the center, most of the funding is from the Department of Defense.

It may be interesting to know how these changes were decided and who was behind them.

The money is only authorized to counter foreign propaganda. If funds were dispersed to counter us Russian bots, someone may have some 'splaining to do.

>>2508453

Global Engagement Center Website

https://www.state.gov/r/gec/

https://archive.fo/w2Hii

"The Global Engagement Center is charged with leading the U.S. government’s efforts to counter propaganda and disinformation from international terrorist organizations and foreign countries."

"The Secretary of State established the Global Engagement Center (GEC) in April 2016 pursuant to Executive Order 13721. The GEC was subsequently codified into law by Congress in the Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)"

"The work of the GEC is focused around four core areas: science and technology, interagency engagement, partner engagement, and content production."

" The GEC and its partners have established programming across multiple platforms, including social media, satellite television, radio, film, and print."

"The GEC is currently led by Acting Coordinator Daniel Kimmage."

>>2508508

Followed the tag Global Engagement Center at the bottom of the page, found:

“On the Offensive”: US State Dept. Gives $40M Boost to “Troll Farm” Propaganda Efforts

March 01st, 2018 By Elliott Gabriel

https://www.mintpressnews.com/us-state-dept-gives-40m-boost-troll-farm-propaganda-efforts/238349/

Seems like its back and fighting Russian meddling. Maybe more to the story here.

>>2508626

Surely GEC is different than before:

Ahmed Younis was called the former head of the GEC in the mint press news article which said the GEC is back up and running, fighting Russian meddling.

According to former GEC head Ahmed Younis, once Donald Trump’s officials took the reins, the GEC became bogged down in “administrative incompetence” and incoherent policy proposals.

https://www.mintpressnews.com/us-state-dept-gives-40m-boost-troll-farm-propaganda-efforts/238349/

"He served as principal deputy coordinator and deputy special envoy of the Global Engagement Center at the U.S. Department of State. Prior to joining government, Younis served as a scientist at Argonne National Laboratories, assigned to the Department of Homeland Security as senior adviser for strategic engagement in the Office for Community Partnerships. From 2012/13-2015/16, Younis served as adjunct assistant professor and international ambassador for global ethics and social justice at the Paulo Freire Democratic Project in the College of Educational Studies at Chapman University."

"In 2009, 2010, and 2011, he was named as one of the 500 most influential Muslims globally."

"His dissertation, American Muslim Conscientização: A Philosophy for Liberation, explores the process of Islamic legal reform in the development of American Muslim critical consciousness. "

https://www.newamerica.org/our-people/ahmed-younis/https://www.newamerica.org/our-people/ahmed-younis/

Ahmed Younis Twitter, must see

https://mobile.twitter.com/ahmedyounisjd

This was Hussein's propaganda minister? Complete SJW called a national security expert. This guy was key in destabilizing the US.

>>2508724

Egypt. Where the Muslim Brotherhood is illegal. They won the election after the revolution, pissed everyone off, then Morsi "declared himself Pharoah" and issued tons of directives because he couldn't get lawmakers to do what he wanted. Then protests again, and Al Sisi and the Generals arrested him and took over. Nearly happened here with Obama.

>>2508785

Gender Fluidity and Social Justice is not at all Muslim Brotherhood talk. Maybe he is and doing the taqqiya silent undermining of culture. But in Egypt around revolution time the population was politically and ideologically in thirds. The harder Islam followers, the less formally educated, were one, they voted Al Noor, party of light. The newly legalized for a brief time Muslim Brotherhood people were another party. These were some of the storekeepers, professionals, businessmen, really decent people as long as the culture was understood. Very honest in dealings and good with foreigners in a place out to take every last dime from a person. The third faction was the young more western people who wanted freedom like we have and were under the sway of the foreign spy campaign. This Younis might be one of these liberals. Everyone was a Muslim for sure, but following the Koran didn't make people freaks. Its the Hadiths and Sunna, the sayings of Muhammad and historical scholarly doctrine that are nasty.