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Trump taps someone else from Fox News for his team (yes, again)
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trump-taps-someone-else-fox-news-his-team-yes-againTrump taps someone else from Fox News for his team (yes, again)
02/07/19 03:47 PM
By Steve Benen
About a year ago, Fox News’ Juan Williams joked on the air that he sees Donald Trump’s White House as a reality-television program – and if you want to make it onto the show, you have to be in a Fox News green room “because apparently that’s the staging area.”
Perhaps he wasn’t kidding.
The Trump administration will tap a former Fox News reporter and former intelligence operative to lead the U.S. government’s premier agency charged with exposing and countering disinformation from Russia and other foreign governments around the world.
Lea Gabrielle, who joined Fox News in 2013 and is also a former Navy pilot, will be the new head of the Global Engagement Center, according to a copy of the announcement obtained by USA TODAY.
Lea Gabrielle, who joined Fox News in 2013 and is also a former Navy pilot, will be the new head of the Global Engagement Center, according to a copy of the announcement obtained by USA TODAY.
The State Department’s Global Engagement Center is a relatively obscure agency, though it made headlines for a good reason last year. The New York Times reported in March 2018 that the center was provided with $120 million to “counter foreign efforts to meddle in elections,” but it hadn’t spent a dime.
It will now be led by Fox News’ Lea Gabrielle, who, as USA Today’s report added, is facing questions from Trump administration critics about “her qualifications for the job.”
Brett Bruen, who worked on the U.S. response to Russian propaganda in the Obama administration, told the newspaper, “Lea may be a great reporter and pilot. She has evidenced absolutely no knowledge of or experience with information warfare. We need leadership that can take on this danger from day one.”
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This isn’t how the executive branch of a global superpower is supposed to work.
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