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Voice of America overseer spent $2 million investigating employees, complaint alleges Paul Farhi, The Washington Post Jan. 19, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail The Voice of America headquarters on Capitol Hill.Washington Post photo by Jonathan Newton The head of Voice of Americas parent agency hired a law firm at a rate of about $500 an hour and spent $2 million in taxpayer funds to compile personnel dossiers on managers he had targeted for removal, according to a complaint filed Tuesday. The accusat...

Defined By Scandal At Voice of America, CEO Resigns At Bidens Request Wednesday, January 20, 2021 Trump appointee Michael Pack resigned as the head of the federal agency over the Voice of America and other broadcasters at President Bidens request. U.S. Agency for Global Media Updated at 9:37 p.m. ET Michael Pack resigned Wednesday as the CEO of the federal agency over the Voice of America and other federally funded international broadcasters after a turbulent seven-month tenure. He leaves the ...

(Screengrab via EWTN/YouTube) No sooner had Michael Pack, CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, announced the appointment of Robert Reilly to run the Voice of America than the long and stabbing liberal knives came out. Lost amidst many of the other Cancel War battles, Mr. Reilly — who has written for National Review, and whose 2020 book, America on Trial: A Defense of the Founding, received a very praiseworthy review in our pages — finds himself the subject of ouster calls, in part beca...

Biden pressure forces Michael Pack out as head of Voice of America oversight board Follow Us Question of the Day By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times - Wednesday, January 20, 2021 Michael Pack, the chief executive officer of the U.S. Agency for Global Media that oversees official U.S. foreign broadcasters, resigned on Wednesday. Mr. Pack was asked by the incoming administration of President Biden to step down, d...

A coalition of Voice of America journalists has called for the director of the organization and his deputy to resign, alleging in a letter they retaliated against a veteran reporter for questioning Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

Menendez looks to rebuild Senate Foreign Relations panel’s power By Rachel Oswald, CQ-Roll Call Published: January 18, 2021, 6:19am Share: Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) speaks at the Capital Health Medical Center in Pennington, New Jersey, on August 6, 2018. (Michael Brochstein/Sipa USA/TNS) WASHINGTON — As soon as next week, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will pass back into Democratic control and the hands of its former chairman, Sen. Bob Menendez. Menendez has said...

The demotion of a Voice of America journalist after she tried to ask a question of the secretary of state invites an unflattering comparison with the Chinese government’s treatment of citizens who ‘pick quarrels and provoke trouble’.

A coalition of Voice of America journalists has called for the director of the organization and his deputy to resign, alleging in a letter they retaliated against a veteran reporter for questioning Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. In the letter dated 14 January, some two dozen reporters charged that three days previously VOA director Robert Reilly and deputy director Elizabeth Robbins “violated” the organization’s journalistic code by staging “a...

The new president of the federally funded Radio Free Asia network most recently ran a consulting company from Boise, Idaho that has represented foreign

The new president of the federally funded Radio Free Asia network most recently ran a consulting company from Boise, Idaho that has represented foreign