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WASHINGTON, DC \u2014 Congressman Darrell Issa sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken calling for a comprehensive inquiry into federal grants and congressional appropriations awarded by the State Department to the Global Disinformation Index \u2013 a Europe-based organization that maintains an exclusion list of conservative media sites to target for \u201cdisinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n

The list included established media outlets including the Washington Examiner, Real Clear Politics, the Federalist, Newsmax, Breitbart, the Daily Wire, One America News, and the New York Post.<\/p>\n

Following the release of the letter, Congressman Issa made the following statement:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe weaponization by the federal government of the term \u2018disinformation\u2019 for the purposes of silencing and censoring free speech must stop. The Department of State\u2019s flagrant disregard in this case is a clear violation of Congressional intent, the principles of our democracy and the inherent rights of all Americans. It is imperative that the Department of State undertake a prompt and comprehensive inquiry into any grants, authorities, and policies that may be improperly and illegally used to curtail the free expression of conservative and domestic media.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read the full letter\u00a0HERE.<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON, DC \u2014 Congressman Darrell Issa sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken calling for a comprehensive inquiry into federal grants and congressional appropriations awarded by the State Department to the Global Disinformation Index \u2013 a Europe-based organization that maintains an exclusion list of conservative media sites to target for \u201cdisinformation.\u201d The list…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8346,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases"],"yoast_head":"\nIssa Slams State Department Funding of European Group that Developed \u2018Enemies List\u2019 of Conservative Media - San Diego News Desk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=9374\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Issa Slams State Department Funding of European Group that Developed \u2018Enemies List\u2019 of Conservative Media - 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