Revolver’s Darren Beattie joined Jack Posobiec on Tuesday’s episode of Human Events Daily to discuss how President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet picks such as Tulsi Gabbard, Pete Hegseth, and Kash Patel, who senators have been wary to confirm, have been getting a “warmer reception” on The Hill recently.
The pair discussed how Gabbard in particular is facing roadblocks after being nominated as intelligence chief, a position which Beattie believes she is “uniquely qualified for.” Gabbard, if confirmed would head the DNI office, which Beattie explained that, unlike the CIA, “doesn’t control an enormous budget or personnel. However, in a formal sense, it does sit on top of the intelligence hierarchy and could be used most effectively in the context of declassification.”
Beattie brought up how the person who currently runs the censorship office within the DNI has spent most of her career accusing conservative influencers of being Russian propagandists and criticizing Trump over his travel ban, something that he later says shows how much of a “fake industry” censorship is. Posobiec then posed the question “does it make sense to shut these things down” or bring new people in to fill the roles?
“There are all of these institutions, Global Engagement Center (GEC), the Foreign Malign Influence Center. There’s a lot of them spread throughout the bureaucracies,” Beattie stated. “So what do we do with it? Do we want to simply eliminate it as we’re eliminating the GEC or would it be a better us to commandeer, to repurpose, to re-imagine, to reshape this infrastructure to our own will? And toward a free speech agenda, I happen to think that that is the correct approach.”
He continued: “I somewhat lament the expiration of the GEC because while it is much better than what it has been in its previous pernicious form, imagine if the GEC were commandeered by somebody who thinks along our lines, who repurposes it for a free speech orientation that could be very powerful, and I think it’s something to take very seriously when viewing this kind of censorship architecture generally, that this can and probably should be repurposed if somebody with the appropriate energy and insight and knowledge and capability could be put at the helm of these respective institutions.”
Watch the full episode below.
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