OPM Report: U.S. Agency For Global Media Put America’s National Security In grave danger
Aug 4, 2020
For nearly a decade, the U.S. agency that oversees all of America’s foreign media services failed to comply with its mandate to safely vet its foreign team members and ‘ignored common national security protocols.’ The multitude of failures put the nation’s security at risk and the agency’s ability to advance America’s national interests overseas in grave danger, stated a recent investigative report released Tuesday by the Office of Personnel Management.
This report has been obtained and reviewed by /ourgirl/ SaraACarter.com.
In the July, 2020 OPM investigative report titled the Follow-Up Review of the U.S. Agency for Global Media Suitability Program, government officials noted that from 2010 and up until new management took over during the Trump administration the agency had failed to comply with previous reports requiring corrective actions to be implemented. U.S. Agency For Global Media became an independent government agency in 1999, and is responsible for all non-military U.S. government sponsored international broadcasting, according to the report.
“It is long past time the government watchdogs begin the task of cleaning up Voice of America,” Chairman of the House Freedom Caucus Rep. Andy Biggs told this reporter.
“The recent misuse of that platform for a political ad for the Democratic presidential candidate is just one more example of how that program has gone awry,” said Biggs, who was referring to a recent exclusive story published by SaraACarter.com that revealed employees with VOA’s Urdu language team had promoted a video they compiled on their social media platforms asking Muslim Americans to vote for Biden. The promotional political ad is now under investigation and numerous employees for the VOA have been reprimanded, according to a follow up report.
USAGM’s CEO Michael Pack, who is overseeing changes at the agency and is the first to be Senate-confirmed, has been ordering comprehensive investigations into malfeasance at the agency. According to officials who spoke to this reporter, Pack’s call for an investigation is looking into potential damage to U.S. national security, and its notifications are expected to be issued from a federal law enforcement agency regarding the failures.
“Currently, Pack has requested meetings with the Chairmen and Ranking Members of USAGM’s Congressional oversight committees,” stated a press release from the agency.
Moreover, Pack “is ordering a surge team of security experts to USAGM to overhaul the agency’s vetting and security protocols. These are just the beginning steps. Pack and his leadership team are working to repair U.S. government international broadcasting so that it is able, once again, to advance America’s national interests.”
The situation is far worse than previously suspected.
A former U.S. intelligence official told this reporter that the VOA, along with other U.S. government foreign media agencies, has “long been suspected of being infiltrated by foreign intelligence agencies” for failure to conduct oversight.
“Basically, U.S. taxpayer dollars were paying foreign spies to work against U.S. national interests in many of these agencies,” the former intelligence official said. “We knew it but the Obama administration did little to stop it.”
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