Senior State Department official sought internal communications with journalists, European officials, and Trump critics

Document also seeks all staff communications that only reference Trump or people in his orbit, such as Alex Jones, Glenn Greenwald and Robert F. Kennedy younger, in addition, directs communications for long-legged words, including “Pepe the Frog”, “Incel”, “Q-Anon”, “Black Lives Matter”, “Big Republika” Infigemic

For several people who received or saw the document, broad requirements for unregulated information felt “Highter Hunting,” says one official – one who could put the privacy and safety of numerous individuals and organizations.

Beattie, who was appointed by Trump in February as a public diploma diploma acting, told the State Department officials that his goal in search of these records was a “file on Twitter” like an internal documents in the state department “for the renewal of confidence with the US public”, said State Department employee. (Beattie referred to internal documents on Twitter that were released After Elon Musk bought a platform, trying to prove that the company had previously silenced the conservatives. While the effort provided more details about the challenges and mistakes that Twitter had already had recognized Do, failed to produce a smoking gun.)

“What would be an innocent reason for that?” Bill Kristol

The document, from March 11, 2025, is particularly focused on records and communication from the counter of foreign information and interference with the HUB, a small office in the Office of the Public Diplomacy of State Department, which accompanied and opposed foreign campaigns by misinformation; It was created after the global center for engagement (GEC), which had the same mission, extinguished at the end of 2024. Myth technological examination broken The news earlier this month that the R/Fimi will be closed.

Some of the R/Fimi staff was at a meeting at which the document was initially divided, as well as the lawyers of the State Department and the staff from the Department’s Administrative Office, which are responsible for conducting searches to meet the requirements for public records.

They are also involved among almost 60 individuals, and organizations caught in Beattie’s data are Dranets Bill Gates; Outlet Bellingcat from an open code; Former Special Agent FBI -A Clint Watts; Nancy Faeser, German Interior Minister; Daniel Fried, a State Department official and a former US ambassador to Poland; Renée Direst, an internet disinformation expert conducted in Stanford Internet Observatory; and Nina Jankowicz, a disinformation researcher who briefly led the Disinformation Committee at the US Ministry of Homeland Security.

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When they were told about their involvement in the record, more people expressed alarm that such a list existed at all in the US institution. “When I was in the Government, I never did something like that,” says Kristol, former head of Vice President Dan Quayle. “What would be an innocent reason for that?”

Fried echoes these feelings. “I spent 40 years in the State Department, and you did not collect names or demanded an E -Af,” Fried says. “I have never heard of such a thing” – at least not in the American context, he explains. Reminded him of the Eastern European “Communist Party Midder[s] Watch out for unreliable bureaucracy. ”