They’re back! A new office called the “Foreign Malign Influence Center” was launched by Joe Biden and his administration as a central hub to control and coordinate censorship and “misinformation.” This is simply a cover for government-run propaganda.

This office will oversee efforts — and I believe it will utilize artificial intelligence and algorithms — to control and censor you. This office will include the resources of the “U.S. military, law enforcement, intelligence, and diplomatic agencies” — combined!

We are hearing that this one office will be running propaganda offices within the FBI, the State Department, the Pentagon, and at least four independent organizations with the same goals inside of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)! That’s at least eight government entities focused on censoring what you say or receive.

That’s outrageous!

We cannot allow this to stand in America. It is straight out of the communist playbook. It will be the end of free speech and freedom in our nation. During the budget debates happening now, Congress can stop funding this effort. Overwhelm Congress with your faxes to urge them to stop paying for the government to silence your free speech. — Mat

You are already being targeted. We warned about this when the DHS tried to launch its Disinformation Governance Board. Tyrants cannot allow freedom of speech. Our First Amendment freedom is public enemy No. 1 to these global radicals and their goals of suppression and control.

Avril Haines, director of national intelligence, let slip in her testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee this month that censorship is already happening, at least dating back to September 2022.

This new propaganda office enjoys both privacy and connections. It is being housed within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and there “it enjoys the unique authority to marshal support from all elements of the U.S. intelligence community to monitor and combat foreign influence efforts such as disinformation campaigns.”

This Senate committee was even talking about monitoring and recording everything down to “key stroke logging and more controls” of every computer key pressed. In that context, Democrat Sen. Jack Reed (RI) started pushing for even MORE computer monitoring, saying, “What can we do to make sure we have more appropriate controls?”

In that context, Sen. Reed was not talking about fake information, but rather he wants to control leaks about the truth. These radicals are setting up a situation where speaking the truth is no longer a defense against their tyranny of control and censorship.

If we do not act now, this will be just the beginning of a massive censorship campaign. Our free speech should never be threatened by the political impulses of government bureaucrats. Send your urgent faxes to Congress to demand an end to this NOW.

While the stated purview of the Foreign Malign Influence Center is ostensibly foreign influence, these eight groups are not limiting their actions to elections. And even if the groups operated under the guise of “election misinformation,” there is no doubt that stories like those involving Hunter Biden and China will be suppressed if doing so furthers someone’s political agenda.

Authorization for this new operation is found in the War and National Defense funding as part of the “50 USC 3059: Foreign Malign Influence Center,” which becomes effective May 10, 2023. This provision authorizes actions against “any hostile effort undertaken by, at the direction of, or on behalf of or with the substantial support of, the government of a covered foreign country with the objective of influencing, through overt or covert means—

(A) the political, military, economic, or other policies or activities of the United States Government or State or local governments, including any election within the United States; or

(B) the public opinion within the United States.”

The government only has to declare that someone is acting with the support of a foreign government to influence public opinion — and that will trigger a full lockdown of our freedom of speech.

How convenient. Remember the Russia Hoax and Hunter Biden’s laptop? The Deep State does not have a good track record.

Haines goes on to admit in testimony that this center is already using procedures on “targeting decisions of any U.S. person.”

That is chilling. It means there already is a procedure in place to turn this large and growing government joint agency effort into something that can and will silence Americans!

This is one of the most dangerous attacks on free speech. It will censor information about the World Health Organization, the elections, COVID, Vaccine Passports, lifesaving medical information, and much more.

We have to stop this, and with the budget battle happening now on Capitol Hill, we can strip this funding. But Congress needs to hear from you now.

LC Action will be working hard on Capitol Hill to stop this moving forward. In addition to sending faxes and signing the petition, please support our ministry through a donation to our Challenge Grant. This will DOUBLE the impact of your donation today.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Eternally vigilant,

Mat Staver, Chairman
Liberty Counsel Action

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P.P.S. Send urgent faxes to demand Congress act immediately to defund this government censorship of American citizens.

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Sources:

“50 USC 3059: Foreign Malign Influence Center: Title 50-ar and National Defense.” U.S. Code, May 10, 2023. Uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=%28title:50%20section:3059%20edition:prelim%29.

Klippenstein, Ken. “The Government Created a New Disinformation Office to Oversee All the Other Ones.” The Intercept, May 5, 2023. Theintercept.com/2023/05/05/foreign-malign-influence-center-disinformation/.

“Senior Intelligence Officials Testify on Capitol Hill.” CSPAN, May 4, 2023. C-span.org/video/?527736-1/intelligence-officials-testify-worldwide-threats&live&vod.