Fed to the tune of $61 million a year, the Global Engagement Center was a failed attempt at narrative control If the nosy grandma peering out the window were a government entity, it would be the Global Engagement Center. The priciest hall monitor in history has just been given a pink slip.  The Global Engagement Center, created by then President Barack Obama’s executive order in 2016, was supposed to help fight terrorist messaging. But the neocon majority in Congress successfully pushed for it