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- Media Description
- Clip from a House Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing titled “Spies, Lies, and Mismanagement: Examining the U.S. Agency for Global Media’s Downfall,” in which USAGM senior adviser Kari Lake says during her opening statement, "Within days in my role as senior adviser, it became increasingly clear that reform was nearly impossible. The agency was incompetent and mismanaged and deeply corrupt, politically biased and, frankly, a serious threat to our national security." She later continues, "We've also uncovered that the grantees, like Radio Free Europe, hired people later identified as foreign spies. At one point, they hired more than 20 spies from a nation hostile to America... Voice of America has employed individuals with direct ties to hostile nations... At one point -- a serious security threat to America -- an Office of Cuba Broadcasting Cuba was declared to be a national security threat. He was fired, thankfully, but he worked there for quite some time." "VOA also sidestepped their charter to be reliable, authoritative news, instead being riddled with political bias and outright anti-American sentiment," she adds. "This place is rotten, it's rotten to the core. President Trump has asked me to go in and help clean it up, and he's also issued an executive order to reduce this agency down to its mandate, to what is mandated, statutorily required."
