Biden administration weighing ‘information czar’ for national securityBy Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times - Thursday, October 24, 2024
The Biden administration has considered creating a new “information czar” for national security to combat foreign disinformation operations about elections and other issues, according to White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan.
Asked about creating such a post on the National Security Council on Thursday, Mr. Sullivan said the idea has been a topic of debate throughout the intelligence and defense agencies.
Mr. Sullivan gave an audience at the National Defense University a rare glimpse inside the hidden debate about how to police foreign speech that the U.S. government finds abhorrent.
“I think on the ’czar’ [proposal], that’s something we’ve been grappling with and thinking about across the national security enterprise,” Mr. Sullivan said. “And under [National Security Memorandum-2], most decision-making does get kind of brought into the NSC process, but this may be an area where actually a lead agency model is a more effective way of setting up for long-term success that insulates this from the … politics on both sides.”
In 2022, Mr. Biden’s Department of Homeland Security established an ill-fated and short-lived “Disinformation Governance Board,” which was disbanded in under a year amid widespread criticism that it infringed upon First Amendment protections for free speech.
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