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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][twitter]https://x.com/justin_hart/status/1888220032255082889[/twitter]

This is the first major fraud I think has been uncovered from scrutiny of USAID.

- USAID has funneled $472.6 million through Internews Network (IN).

- IN has worked with 4,291 media outlets, producing 4,799 hours of broadcasts.

- Reached up to 778 million people.

- Trained over 9,000 journalists.

- Supported social media censorship initiatives.

- Offices in over 30 countries, main hubs in US, London, Paris, Kiev, Bangkok, Nairobi.

- Led by Jeanne Bourgault, with a salary of $451k/year.

- Board co-chaired by Richard J. Kessler and Simone Otus Coxe, Democratic donors.

- Launched a $10M fund at the Clinton Global Initiative in 2023.

- Operates at least 6 subsidiaries, one in the Cayman Islands.

- Over 95% of IN's budget since 2008 from the US government.

- Main billing location is an abandoned building in California

- Obvious money-grab and probably doing spook bidding for a long time.[/quote]

Why is MSM silent?[/quote]

Because there is nothing indicating fraud or corruption in what you state. It’s an organization that’s trained thousands of journalists and worked with thousands of media outlets. The CEO’s salary is pretty reasonable given the organization’s size.

I am not sure why people have come to believe the CIA uses journalists or aid workers - it is prohibited -

“ Prior to the mid-1970s, reportedly it had been a practice of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to use journalists for intelligence collection purposes. However, following the investigations into past U.S. intelligence activities by two congressional select committees (chaired by Senator Frank Church and Representative Otis Pike), it has seemingly been the policy of the intelligence community not to use journalists, clergy, or aid workers for intelligence purposes, other than in “exceptional circumstances.” A declassified CIA regulation from 1987, for example, states that the agency would not use accredited U.S. or foreign journalists, clergy, or Peace Corps workers for intelligence purposes. Open, acknowledged relationships with the clergy and journalists for conducting translation or training services, or (for clergy) religious services, were allowed. (AR 2-2, Law and Policy Governing the Conduct of Intelligence Activities, December 23, 1987, pp. 27-30, at https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC_0006235713.pdf) The exception to this policy was described in July 1996 testimony for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence by John Deutch, then-Director of Central Intelligence (DCI). Deutch expressed his reluctance to ever use journalists. Nevertheless, he defended maintaining an exception in “extremely rare...highly improbable circumstances” that could result in intelligence enabling disruption of an “extreme threat to the Nation.” [A]s the Director of Central Intelligence, I must be in a position to assure the President and the members of the National Security Council and this country, that there will never come a time when the United States cannot ask a witting citizen, knowledgeable citizen, to assist in combating an extreme threat to the Nation. So I, like all of my predecessors for the last 19 years, have arrived at the conclusion that the Agency should not be prohibited from considering the use of American journalists or clergy in exceptional circumstances. (S. Hrg. 104-593, pp. 6-7)

Legislation
Shortly after Director Deutch’s testimony, in October 1996, Congress included language in the FY1997 Intelligence Authorization Act (P.L. 104-293 §309, codified as 50 U.S.C. §3324) concerning use of journalists in intelligence activities. The provision is captioned “Prohibition on using journalists as agents or assets,” and states that it is the “policy of the United States that an element of the Intelligence Community may not use as an agent or asset for the purposes of collecting intelligence.” The prohibition covers these individuals in the United States or abroad. This provision covers any individual with press credentials of a U.S. media organization or who may be recognized by a foreign government as a representative of a U.S. media organization.”

Cite: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IN/IN12154/2

Honestly, believing USAID or any subcontractor or grantee is “doing spook bidding” is a level of looney toons equivalent to Comet Pizza binging the center of a pedophile ring. [/quote]

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