Establishing a National Information Defense Center

Today, I am asking our security chiefs in the UK

to begin work on a new national center for

information defense, new national center for

information defense,

to detect, attribute, and disrupt these kinds

of hostile state information attacks to

support and defend our democracy.

I know this is a shared challenge, so we are going to use

our experience in the UK and the fact that we have

already been through this shock starting ten years ago

to help other countries.

In 1946, the United Nations General Assembly passed

a resolution reading in part,

"Freedom of information is a fundamental human

right

and the touchstone of all the freedoms to which the United Nations is

consecrated." This is our touchstone as well.

This is the code of the Voice of America.

We welcome the view of others.

We seek a free flow of information

across national boundaries and oceans,

across iron curtains and stone walls.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant

facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies,

and competitive values.

For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and

falsehood in an open market is a nation that is

afraid of its people.

For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and

falsehood in an open market is a nation that is

afraid of its people