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Trump official targeted in Biden-era ‘disinformation’ dossier still under wraps days after Rubio revelation
The identity of a Trump administration official who was allegedly targeted by the Biden administration’s State Department in a «disinformation» dossier remains a mystery nearly two weeks after Secretary of State Marco Rubio revealed details on the file.
Rubio revealed at the most recent Trump administration Cabinet meeting April 30 that an unidentified Trump administration official who was present had been the subject of a State Department dossier detailing alleged promotion of social media «disinformation.»
Rubio, the State Department and the White House have not yet identified which official the Biden administration targeted. Fox News Digital has reached out repeatedly to the White House regarding the identity of the official, including on Monday, but did not receive replies.
When asked for an update on the identity of the Trump official, the State Department directed Fox News Digital to Rubio’s April 30 remark, detailing that, «We are going to be turning over these dossiers to the individuals, and they’ll decide whether they want to disclose it or not.»
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The Trump administration has not revealed which administration official was targeted by the Biden administration’s State Department in a «disinformation» dossier compiling previous social media posts that identified them as «purveyors of disinformation.» (Getty Images)
Rubio said during the April 30 Cabinet meeting that a little-known, now-defunct office within the State Department called the Global Engagement Center (GEC) had compiled disinformation dossiers on Americans across the country as part of an effort to «censor» free speech, including an individual who has since joined the Trump administration.
«We had an office in the Department of State whose job it was to censor Americans,» Rubio said during the meeting. «And, by the way, I’m not going to say who it is. I’ll leave it up to them. There’s at least one person at this table today who had a dossier in that building of social media posts to identify them as purveyors of disinformation. We have these dossiers. We are going to be turning those over to these individuals.»
Vice President JD Vance interjected, asking, «Was it me or Elon (Musk)? We can follow up when the media is gone,» which drew laughter from the Cabinet.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks during a Cabinet meeting April 30. (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)
«But just think about that. The Department of State of the United States had set up an office to monitor the social media posts and commentary of American citizens, to identify them as vectors of disinformation,» Rubio continued. «When we know that the best way to combat disinformation is freedom of speech and transparency.»
Though Rubio did not identify which Trump official the Biden administration kept a dossier on, Elon Musk has previously railed against the Global Engagement Center.
«The worst offender in US government censorship & media manipulation is an obscure agency called GEC,» Musk posted to X in January 2023. That was more than a year before Musk endorsed Trump in the 2024 presidential race and became a fixture of the administration in his temporary role with the Department of Government Efficiency.
«They are a threat to our democracy,» Musk added.
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Former President Barack Obama established the Global Engagement Center in 2016 through an executive order aimed at coordinating counterterrorism messaging to foreign nations before it expanded its scope to also include countering foreign propaganda and disinformation, State Department documents show.
Conservatives have slammed the office as a political weapon to silence free speech, including Rubio in an April op-ed when he cited a 2020 GEC report claiming that a «Russian disinformation apparatus» was behind public speculation that the coronavirus was an «engineered bioweapon» or was created by «research conducted at the Wuhan institute.»
Marco Rubio said during the April 30 Cabinet meeting that a little-known, now-defunct office within the State Department called the Global Engagement Center (GEC) had compiled disinformation dossiers on Americans across the country as part of an effort to «censor» free speech. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency)
In the years following the pandemic, the Department of Energy under the Biden administration and former FBI Director Christopher Wray said evidence indicated that COVID-19 was the result of a lab leak, while the Trump administration’s CIA reported earlier in 2025 that a lab leak was the likely origin of the virus.
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In 2024, lawmakers did not approve new funding for the office in the National Defense Authorization Act, and it was scheduled to terminate on Dec. 23, 2024. The Biden administration, however, shuffled staffers and rebranded the office.
It became the Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference Hub just days before Trump’s inauguration, the New York Post reported in January.
Rubio announced in April that the office would officially shutter.
Marco Rubio has railed against the office in previous interviews and op-eds, including authoring an opinion piece for the Federalist in April touting that he was dismantling the «censorship-industrial complex» that had gripped agencies such as the State Department. (Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
«I am announcing the closure of the State Department’s Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (R/FIMI), formerly known as the Global Engagement Center (GEC),» Rubio said in an April 16 statement announcing the office’s closure.
«Under the previous administration, this office, which cost taxpayers more than $50 million per year, spent millions of dollars to actively silence and censor the voices of Americans they were supposed to be serving,» he wrote. «This is antithetical to the very principles we should be upholding and inconceivable it was taking place in America. That ends today.»
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Though Marco Rubio did not identify which Trump official the Biden administration kept a dossier on, Elon Musk has previously railed against the Global Engagement Center. (Alex Brandon/The Associated Press)
Rubio has railed against the office in previous interviews and op-eds, including authoring an opinion piece for the Federalist in April touting that he was dismantling the «censorship-industrial complex» that had gripped agencies such as the State Department.
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«Over the past half-decade, bodies like GEC, crafted by our own governing ruling class, nearly destroyed America’s long free speech history,» he wrote in the op-ed. «The enemies of speech had new lingo to justify their authoritarian impulse. It was «disinformation,» allegedly pushed by nefarious foreign governments, that was the No. 1 threat to ‘our democracy.’ To protect ‘our democracy,’ this ‘disinformation’ had to be identified and stamped out.»
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DHS slams California ‘sanctuary’ county after mom allegedly murdered by 2 Honduran nationals
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FIRST ON FOX: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) slammed a California county for not honoring U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainer requests for two illegal aliens accused of murdering a 24-year-old mother earlier this month.
Franquin Inestroza-Martinez, a Honduran national, and Gerzon Jose Chirinos-Munguia, also of Honduras, were arrested in Santa Clara County for allegedly killing Kembery Chirinos-Flores with a shotgun in early January.
Chirinos-Munguia is the father of Chirinos-Flores’ 5-year-old son, and was previously arrested in 2018 for battery and false imprisonment, and subsequently in 2019 for domestic battery and threatening crime with the intent of terrorizing, DHS said.
DHS criticized Santa Clara County for not honoring ICE detainers tied to two suspects accused of killing a 24-year-old mother Kembery Chirinos-Flores. (Courtesy of DHS)
He was released back into California without ICE being notified in both 2018 and 2019, according to DHS.
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«A man lost his life, and a child is now without a mother. These illegal aliens should have never been able to commit these horrific killings and must NEVER be released from jail into American communities,» DHS Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis told Fox News Digital in a statement.
Inestroza-Martinez, the alleged accomplice of the boy’s father, also had an outstanding arrest warrant from New Jersey for the homicide of a 55-year-old in March 2025, according to DHS.
DHS said he was deported from the U.S. in 2013, then again in 2018. He illegally re-entered the country at an unknown date and time before allegedly murdering both the man in New Jersey and Chirinos-Flores.
Franquin Inestroza-Martinez, left, and Gerzon Jose Chirinos-Munguia were arrested for murder. DHS says it was not their first crime committed in the U.S. (Courtesy of DHS)
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT ACCUSED OF FATAL HIT AND RUN THAT KILLED NORTH CAROLINA MOTORCYCLIST
DHS pointed to the California Value Act (CVA), a «sanctuary» law which prohibits local police from asking suspects about immigration status and limits cooperation between federal immigration agents and local authorities.
«Instead of cooperating with ICE, Santa Clara sanctuary politicians REFUSED to honor ICE’s arrest detainer and will not notify ICE when these murderers are released from jail,» Bis added. «This insanity of refusing to turn cold-blooded killers over to ICE must end.»
The CVA was signed into law in 2017 in response to the immigration efforts of President Donald Trump during his first term.
The Trump administration sued California over the California Value Act during his first term as president. (Shawn Thew/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images; Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
DHS CALLS RAPE OF AUTISTIC TEEN ‘MOST HEINOUS WE’VE SEEN’ AS ICE DETAINER TESTS CALIFORNIA SANCTUARY LAWS
The Trump administration sued California over the law throughout 2017-18, though the suit was dismissed by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California. The suit failed again during appeal and the Supreme Court declined to hear the case in 2020.
CBS News reported that the child was not harmed in the incident and has since been placed in the custody of child protective services.
Migrants are processed by the U.S. Border Patrol after crossing the US-Mexico border in San Diego in 2024. (Qian Weizhong/VCG via Getty Images)
«Kembery was in the prime of her life. She was working two jobs, and she was the loving mother of a 5-year-old son,» Santa Clara Department of Public Safety Chief Dan Pistor said at a press briefing following the arrests.
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Fox News Digital reached out to the Board President of Santa Clara County but did not receive a response.
The Santa Clara County Board president did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
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Escribí hace unos días un esbozo de lo que puede ser el final de la intervención de Estados Unidos e Israel en Irán, pero en solo ocho días las cosas cambiaron de tal manera que hoy se pueden ver unos escenarios distintos con una confrontación aún mayor.
En ese texto adelanté que lo más probable, dada la decapitación de toda la autoridad religiosa y militar, era que el régimen iraní diera paso a una dictadura militar tradicional, sin el matiz islámico, con la cual se podría negociar un cambio, que incluiría entregar todo el uranio y eliminar toda posibilidad de construir armas atómicas, dejar la financiación de grupos terroristas, como Hamas, Hizbollah y los Houtis, y poner fin al intervencionismo a lo largo y ancho del mundo, que Irán tenía como práctica común bajo el régimen de los ayatollahs. ¿La contraprestación? Fin de las sanciones y normalización de las relaciones económicas y políticas con el mundo.
Lo que ha pasado en los últimos días enreda un poco esta solución que se vislumbraba; ahora, antes de llegar de todas maneras a un acuerdo, en el cual, desafortunadamente, la democracia, lo que quieren más del 60 por ciento de los iraníes, no se va a dar, creo que habrá una operación militar como la que se llevó a cabo en Venezuela, pero que en Irán tendrá su prueba mayor, la toma del negocio del petróleo iraní en la isla de Kharg.
Hay un sector de líderes iraníes que se sienten victoriosos por la subida del precio del petróleo, y asumen que Donald Trump y Estados Unidos no van a aguantar. Es más, el cierre del estrecho de Ormuz, a pesar de la destrucción de toda la armada iraní, le ha abierto un negocio increíble a la Guardia Revolucionaria, que hoy cobra dos millones de dólares por barco al que le dan paso por esa zona restringida.
Estos dos éxitos de Irán, más el ataque a otros países del Golfo y a una base americana en Arabia Saudita -que dejó diez militares estadounidenses heridos- han envalentonado a sectores radicales iraníes, que hoy creen tener la sartén por el mango y no están dispuestos a negociar.
Si en los próximos diez días Irán no negocia, la segunda etapa del modelo venezolano se va a ejecutar y hoy las fuerzas militares norteamericanas están listas para hacerlo, tomarse el control del petróleo iraní.
Los americanos ya bombardearon todos los objetivos militares en la isla de Kharg, desde donde se mueve el 90 por ciento del petróleo iraní, pero sin tocar nada de la infraestructura energética: el mensaje es claro.
Ahora que Irán se hace el intransigente, esa opción, que doblegaría el régimen, pues la crisis económica es absoluta, se vuelve necesaria para lograr el objetivo final de esta operación militar, iniciada hace unas semanas. No será fácil, pero sí es mucho más que tener el control del estrecho de Hormuz. La diferencia: militares americanos e israelíes en suelo iraní. La posibilidad de muertos es mucho más alta y, por ende, el costo político aumenta, aunque la recompensa política también es enorme.
¿Va a prevalecer algún tipo del sensatez en Irán que facilite una salida antes de que esto se dé, pues es un escalamiento total? Una acción de esta naturaleza, sin duda, llevaría a Irán a atacar de manera mucho más obvia, y masiva, por cierto, a sus vecinos, incluyendo objetivos civiles de gran importancia, como las plantas desalinizadoras que le dan agua a todas las grandes ciudades del Golfo. El escalamiento, de todas maneras, ya comenzó, y para los países de la región quedó claro que Irán es el enemigo y apaciguarlo no vale de nada.
Los diez días de suspensión de operaciones contra la infraestructura civil que Trump dio para hacer negociaciones terminan el 6 de abril. Ya el mandatario estadounidense dijo hoy que atacaría toda la infraestructura energética, petrolífera e incluso de plantas desalinizadoras si Irán no negocia los 15 puntos que Estados Unidos puso sobre la mesa.
Es decir, estamos ante el final de esta operación a corto plazo o ante una escalada que, al final, si Estados Unidos se mantiene -y eso está por verse-, puede llevar incluso a un cambio total de régimen en Irán, que no ha sido el objetivo norteamericano, aunque sí es el de Israel. Es más, el control del estrecho o el control de barcos con petróleo, al estilo Venezuela, le dan a Estados Unidos otras opciones para estrangular la ya debilitada economía iraní y lograr lo que quieren, pero prolongan la operación, algo con lo que Iran cuenta.
El libreto que Estados Unidos está construyendo sobre intervenciones a lo largo y ancho del mundo, distinto a Irak, a Afganistan, a Libia o a Panamá, y que comenzó con la extracción de Nicolás Maduro en Venezuela, hoy tiene un segundo capítulo en Irán. Mucho más complejo, pero con un objetivo claro, dejar de lado la dependencia del petróleo iraní y de los estrechos de Ormuz y de aquel que conecta el golfo de Adén con el mar rojo, donde operan los Huties, terroristas entrenados por Irán.
La comodidad energética con que se vivió durante décadas, y que le permitió a Irán lograr esa posición de chantaje, se acabó, e independientemente de lo que pase, occidente, tal le pasó a Europa cuando Rusia invadió Ucrania, apenas comienza a buscar alternativas.
Hasta hoy, Irán puede chantajear, amenazar y atacar a otros países, como lo hizo desde que llegó al poder el ayatollah Khomeini, pues tiene el petróleo y el control del estrecho, pero esa ventaja táctica está a punto de terminar, e Irán, independientemente de lo que pase (con excepción de que logre desarrollar una bomba atómica) va a dejar de ser el país medianamente poderoso en el que se convirtió gracias al terrorismo.
La pregunta que todos nos debemos hacer es, ¿quién cede primero? Y la segunda, ¿en cuánto tiempo? Irán quiere esperar y causar más daño a sus vecinos y a Occidente, para negociar la supervivencia del régimen, aunque no sepamos hoy quién está a cargo. Trump quiere apretar aun más, para lograr en corto tiempo sus objetivos políticos internos y externos. En poco días lo sabremos.
Que momento geopolítico tan interesante.
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