Mike Benz exposes State Department's use of USAID as an ‘intelligence cloak’ for global ops

Foundation for Freedom Online Executive Director Mike Benz says the State Department uses the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to access areas it cannot under the “ruse” of humanitarian work. “They can get into local populations, they can get into institutions, they can get into government facilities, they can trespass where the American State Department technically would not be allowed or would draw eyes or the ire of local governments,” he explains. Benz also voices his concerns about merging USAID under the State Department without serious reform.