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NPR / David Folkenflik
/ May 22“Taken together, they depict Pack’s brief tenure as an ideologically driven rampage through a government agency to try to force its newsrooms and workforce to show fealty to the White House. Pack punished executives who objected to the legality of his plans, interfered in the journalistic independence of the newsrooms under his agency, and personally signed a no-bid contract with a private law firm to investigate those employees he saw as opposed to former President Donald Trump. The law firm’s fees reached the seven figures for work typically done by attorneys who are federal employees.” —
Tags:
Donald Trump,
Michael Pack,
press freedom,
U.S. Agency for Global Media,
Voice of America
