Rubio Exposes Biden-Era State Department Spying on Trump Officials

During a recent Cabinet meeting with President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio dropped a bombshell: the Biden administration maintained dossiers on American citizens, including a Trump official, accusing them of spreading so-called “disinformation.”

“We had an office in the Department of State whose job it was to censor Americans,” Rubio revealed. “There’s at least one person at this table today who had a dossier… of social media posts to identify them as purveyors of disinformation.”

Rubio didn’t name names, but Vice President JD Vance joked, “Was it me or Elon [Musk]?” underscoring the absurdity of an American government agency spying on its own people for political purposes.

At the center of this Orwellian operation was the Global Engagement Center (GEC) a shadowy arm of the State Department originally created under Barack Obama to fight terrorist propaganda abroad. But under Biden, it quietly morphed into a domestic censorship machine.

Rubio has since shut the office down, stating in an April 16 press release:

“This office… spent millions of dollars to actively silence and censor the voices of Americans they were supposed to be serving. That ends today.”

The GEC, later rebranded as the Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference Hub just before Trump’s inauguration, was accused of working with social media companies and media outlets to blacklist American citizens for their views especially during the pandemic.

According to journalist Matt Taibbi, the GEC targeted people for sharing views such as:

• Describing COVID-19 as a potential bioweapon

• Linking the virus’s origin to the Wuhan Institute of Virology

• Questioning the role of U.S. intelligence agencies in pandemic narratives

That’s not countering terrorism that’s thought policing, and the targets were Americans.

Elon Musk, now a major player in the Trump administration’s government efficiency efforts, has been vocal about the GEC’s abuse:

“The worst offender in U.S. government censorship & media manipulation is an obscure agency called GEC,” Musk wrote in 2023. “They are a threat to our democracy.”

Let that sink in. An unelected government office used taxpayer funds more than $50 million per year to monitor, flag, and silence citizens for questioning government narratives.

And now, we know they even kept files on Trump administration officials.

The closure of the GEC and its rebranded successors is a major victory for free speech and government accountability, but it also raises disturbing questions:

• How many Americans were tracked?

• Who authorized these efforts?

• What other departments participated in this surveillance?

Rubio’s pledge to release the dossiers to the individuals targeted is just the beginning. Americans deserve the truth and someone must be held accountable.

This isn’t just about censorship. It’s about restoring the constitutional rights that were trampled under the Biden administration’s watch.

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