CNAS - The administration of President Barack Obama hired several CNAS employees for key jobs.
https://www.cnas.org/countering-high-tech-illiberalism
"Impairing Illiberal Populism (Andrea Kendall-Taylor): A project that examines how the media environment and digital space fuel democratic decline. It will offer recommendations for policies and regulations governing the information space and media, as well as strategies for mainstream political actors to deflate illiberal populist movements and stunt their use of technology to undermine democracy."
Illiberal means not liberal.
https://www.cnas.org/people/andrea-kendall-taylor
"Prior to joining CNAS, Andrea served for eight years as a senior intelligence officer. From 2015 to 2018, she was Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Russia and Eurasia at the National Intelligence Council (NIC) in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI). In this role Andrea led the U.S. intelligence community’s strategic analysis on Russia, represented the IC in interagency policy meetings, provided analysis to the National Security Council, and briefed the DNI and other senior staff for White House and international meetings. Prior to joining the NIC, Andrea was a senior analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) where she worked on Russia and Eurasia, the political dynamics of autocracies, and democratic decline."