From 9/11 to Domestic Threat Actors — Control Is the Goal

In 1948, the US Information and Educational Exchange Act became law, which forbade the government from pushing propaganda onto the US population. This law was repealed in 2013.

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• The United States has been unique in its dedication to free speech, but that Constitutional right has been slowly eroded in the name of national security and protecting public health

• In 1950, Sen. Joseph McCarthy claimed to have proof of a communist spy ring within the U.S. State Department. The lesson from that time was the destructive …