I'd love to see it repealed, but see no realistic chance of that happening any time soon. I'd love to see it reinterpreted, which is somewhat more likely, but won't happen until strategic communicators, currently content to accept no as the final answer, grow a pair and start begging forgiveness instead of asking permission.
There is no product that can't make it back to the domestic audience.
The domestic audience has been left essentially at the mercy of uncountered enemy propaganda, most of it disseminated almost unchallenged by American and British media organizations that PA treats like long lost brothers and IO leaves alone for fear of Smith-Mundt lawfare. The Regulars have left the home front undefended in the battle space that counts the most in this war, the area between the ears of the American voter. Nobody in the government is going to do much to oppose the enemy’s strategic communications campaign. Half of their political masters profit from the enemy’s unchallenged, unopposed, unmitigated 24/7/365 barrage.
Smith-Mundt, DOD implementation policies of Executive Order S-12333, United States Intelligence Activities; DOD Instructions S-3321.1, (S) Overt Psychological Operations Conducted by the Military Services in Peacetime and in Contingencies Short of Declared War (U); and National Security Decision Directive (NSDD) 130, U.S. International Information Policy all provide a shield of plausible ineffectiveness behind which non-partisan careerists cower lest the "Loyal Opposition" block their promotions and defund their programs because they gored the wrong ox.
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