State Department's top candidate to lead efforts countering disinformation: A Fox News reporter

[Amused]

Welcome to the clown car...

https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/05/politics/lea-gabrielle-gec/index.html


A Fox News correspondent is a leading candidate to head the State Department agency tasked with combating propaganda and disinformation from foreign adversaries, CNN has learned.

Lea Gabrielle is being considered for special envoy and coordinator of the Global Engagement Center, multiple State Department sources and one former senior State official told CNN.
Gabrielle is a general assignment reporter for "Shepard Smith Reporting," according to her Fox News biography, and was previously a military reporter. She is also a United States Naval Academy graduate and served in the US Navy as fighter pilot for more than a decade, as well as taking part in some intelligence operations.

The State Department said Wednesday it did not have information on staffing announcements and Gabrielle did not immediately reply to a CNN request for comment. A friend of Gabrielle's told CNN that she was indeed leaving Fox News and moving to Washington, DC.

 

[UNCjigga]

To be fair, if she's behind the Shepherd Smith segments, then she's probably the closest thing FOX had to a real reporter (and might be leaving because she doesn't want to drink the Kool aid.)

Edit: I should clarify that doesn't necessarily mean she's qualified for this position...

 

[compcons]

It takes one to know one?

 

[trenchfoot]

It takes one to know one?

Absolutely, considering the fact that being cultured and indoctrinated over at FOX would make her an expert authority at creating propaganda and disinformation, seeing as if that's practically all they do over there.

 

[dawp]

To be fair, if she's behind the Shepherd Smith segments, then she's probably the closest thing FOX had to a real reporter (and might be leaving because she doesn't want to drink the Kool aid.)

Edit: I should clarify that doesn't necessarily mean she's qualified for this position...

there are very few in this admin that are qualified, starting with the top.

 

[Starbuck1975]

Naval Academy grad with 12 years of active duty service, her last assignment in military intelligence, to include serving under a Seal unit.

Journalism career started at NBC.

Clown not found.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Minitrue has found its minister?