Friday, January 1, 2021
Trump Appointee Seeks Lasting Control Over Radio Free Europe, Radio Free Asia : NPR
... "precisely the kind of political power maneuver that RFE/RL regularly witnesses in places like Russia, Hungary, Belarus, and Tajikistan. We never thought we'd see it from our own oversight agency." ...
... "This appears to be a blatant attempt by Michael Pack to federalize and politicize networks that Congress has repeatedly stated in statute should be nonpartisan and free from day to day government control," Jamie Fly, former president of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, told NPR. "As the Kremlin and other authoritarian regimes target RFE/RL journalists, his actions continue to put journalists at greater risk and compromise their mission." Fly, a former advisor to Senator Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican, was fired by Pack last summer...
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