State Department docs indicate closing of Obama’s Global Engagement Center may have been sleight of hand: Report

The Global Engagement Center, a multi-agency entity housed within the U.S. State Department that was credibly accused of working with organizations both at home and abroad to silence conservative voices, supposedly died last week. House Appropriations Chair Tom Cole (R-Okla.) was unable to get his one-year extension of the center into the continuing resolution that was ultimately passed on Dec. 20.

It appears, however, that the censorious practices undertaken by the agency established by Barack Obama in 2011 might ultimately live on in another form and under a new name.

Documents recently obtained by the Washington Examiner and reviewed by senior Republican staffers have reportedly exposed the State Department’s intention to “realign” over 50 GEC officials and divert tens of millions of dollars

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