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    Trump taps former Fox News reporter to lead agency countering Russian disinformation

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    Post by Rocky Fri Feb 08, 2019 5:50 am


     Trump taps former Fox News reporter to lead agency countering Russian disinformation




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     Trump taps former Fox News reporter to lead agency countering Russian disinformation 

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    WASHINGTON – 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. 

    Gabrielle is the latest in a string of Fox News personalities to win high-profile roles in the Trump administration. The president has selected Heather Nauert, a former Fox News anchor, to be his next United Nations ambassador. And he hired former Fox News executive Bill Shine in June to serve as a top communications adviser. 

    Gabrielle's appointment, first reported by Foreign Policy magazine, immediately raised eyebrows among Trump administration critics who questioned her qualifications for the job. Gabrielle confirmed her new post in an interview with the magazine and said China, Russia, Iran, and terrorist organizations posed the top propaganda threats to the U.S.

    “We have to realize that we are under attack by adversary countries and international terrorist organizations that are using propaganda and disinformation as a weapon,” she told Foreign Policy. “They’re doing it because it’s cheap, and it’s easy, and because they can.”

    Brett Bruen, who worked on the U.S. response to Russian propaganda in the Obama administration, said he was concerned Gabrielle did not bring the required experience to the job.

    "Lea may be a great reporter and pilot. She has evidenced absolutely no knowledge of or experience with information warfare," Bruen said. "We need leadership that can take on this danger from day one."
       Trump taps former Fox News reporter to lead agency countering Russian disinformation  BBTiWFs©️ Juan Mabromata, AFP/Getty Images President Donald Trump, looks at Russia's President Vladimir Putin as they prepare for a group photo, during the G-20 Leaders' Summit in Buenos Aires, on Nov. 30, 2018.
    The Global Engagement Center became the U.S. government's disinformation hub after the 2016 presidential election – in which Russia spent millions of dollars on a covert campaign to sway the outcome and boost then-candidate Donald Trump. An acting coordinator, Daniel Kimmage – an expert on disinformation who is fluent in Russian and Arabic – has led the agency for more than two years.

    Bruen and others say the Trump administration has failed to prioritize the center's mission, leaving the U.S. dramatically outgunned in an era of weaponized information that is often designed to undermine U.S. national security and democracy. Although Congress authorized $60 million in funding for the agency in 2016, that funding was delayed amid two years of bureaucratic red tap and stonewalling

    The center finally received its funding just as the 2019 fiscal year was closing. It now faces another possible crunch as the White House and Congress negotiate over new funding bill to keep the government open after Feb. 15, when current money will run out. 

    According to her LinkedIn account, Gabrielle is a former intelligence operative, defense foreign liaison officer, and U.S. Navy program director. That bio says she "directed and deployed" in world-wide intelligence collection operations and in tactical anti-terrorist operations and served in a variety of other defense and intelligence roles.



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