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Many more former Obama/Biden operatives hold various Biden/Harris transition team positions.
They were chosen to assure dirty business as usual continuity, how all US regimes operate.
Former Obama/Biden national security advisor, earlier its US envoy Susan Rice may be Biden/Harris choice as chief diplomat at State.
Endorsing virtually everything about US imperial adventurism may boost her chance of succeeding Pompeo at Foggy Bottom.
In this capacity is appointed, she'll direct foreign policy for Biden/Harris.
Richard Stengel heads their US Agency for Global Media team, a CIA created Cold War relic, its mission spreading disinformation about nations free from US control, notably Russia and China.
The former Time magazine managing editor and MSNBC political commentator is notoriously hostile toward free expression.
At Time magazine in 2011, he featured a cover story, headlined: "Does It Still Matter?"
Referring to the Constitution's First Amendment, he said the following:
"(W)e can pat ourselves on the back about the past 223 years, but we cannot let the Constitution become an obstacle to the US's moving into the future with (an) an evolving sense of civil and political rights," adding:
"The Constitution does not protect our spirit of liberty; our spirit of liberty protects the Constitution."
"The Constitution serves the nation; the nation does not serve the Constitution."
In a 2019 WaPo op-ed, he argued that "as a government official traveling around the world championing the virtues of free speech, I came to see how our First Amendment standard is an outlier."
In his new Biden/Harris transition team role, he called himself its "chief propagandist," calling for them (if succeed Trump) to "rethink" the First Amendment.
He also urged use of propaganda as regime policy against the "population," adding:
"I'm not against propaganda. Every country does it, and they have to do it to their own population. And I don't necessarily think it's that awful."
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