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Lake on VOA dismantling being political: Hirers had 'sketchy backgrounds,' from hostile countries

Lake on VOA dismantling being political: Hirers had 'sketchy backgrounds,' from hostile countries https://justthenews.com/accountability/media/kari-lake The Trump White House argument to dismantle the Voice of America and other taxpayer-funded news outlets was that they were producing "radical propaganda" and had become wasteful and corrupt. The U.S. Agency for Global Media has been the subject of a political and legal tug-of-war since President Trump in March 2025 named acolyte Kari Lake to lead it and ultimately shut down the agency. Just this month, a judge made two rulings on the matter. The first was that Lake could not be the agency's CEO because her appointment didn’t follow Senate confirmation requirements, therefore, her layoffs at Voice of America, which operates under USAGM, were invalid. The second was that the Trump administration's mass layoffs, a reported 1,042, and other actions to dismantle USAGM were "illegal," "arbitrary," and "capricious," thus ordering the journalists be reinstated. However, the Trump administration is appealing the federal judge's ruling that deemed the Voice of America shutdown illegal. The Trump White House's initial argument to dismantle the Voice of America and other taxpayer-funded news outlets under USAGM was that they were producing "radical propaganda" and had become wasteful and corrupt. “When I first got into the agency, I started pulling all kinds of documents, looking at various agreements, looking at many of the past investigations they had done on alleged corruption in the agency,” Lake told Full Measure in an exclusive interview. “And as I dug through all of that, I realized, ‘Oh my gosh, this thing is even worse than I heard it was when I got in there.’” Major decisions under Lake besides the mass layoffs and restructuring at Voice of America included anti-corruption and cost-saving moves. The challenge to all of this originated from a lawsuit brought by VOA journalists along with federal employee unions including AFSCME, plus some press freedom organizations. They sought to restore the agency to what it was prior to Trump. The Agency for Global Media has roots tracing back to World War II with efforts to counter enemy propaganda. Today, it provides US taxpayer-funded news globally. News groups funded by the US Agency for Global Media include VOA, Radio Free Europe and Radio Free Asia. But reports and audits have revealed massive scandals ranging from bias to waste, corruption, and national security threats. Lake, a former local Fox News TV broadcaster and 2024 Arizona GOP Senate nominee, says about half the agency's workforce was never properly vetted. “You have to realize, once you get in at this agency, you have access to get into any part of the government,” Lake says. “And if we're hiring people with sketchy backgrounds from countries that don't like us, that now all of a sudden have access to the government, and we intentionally didn't do the background check that was required, that’s criminal really in my mind, especially knowing that many of them. "As we started to reassess and look back at ‘Where are these people, where have they gone?’ There were, I believe, 500 of them were never able to track down and figure out where they went. Were they real people? Were they ghost employees? Were they spies who came in? And they were given fake social security numbers. And then, did they disappear somewhere into the federal government?” Full Measure asked in response: "Who gave them the fake social security numbers?” Lake replied: "The agency did. The agency did— to bring them in.” Lake also takes issue with what she calls biased reporting. "When I got in, I saw a lot of very disturbing things about how things were being spent, past content that we put on. I mean, two days after President Trump got inaugurated, they put up a graphic with President Trump's face and a swastika over it. I would've been appalled if they did that with Joe Biden,” she said. “Who were they broadcasting it to?” Full Measure asked. "They were broadcasting it to our Spanish language audience. And I just said, ‘Oh my God, this is just so bad. What's going on?’” As Lake made cuts and transformations, critics went on the attack. At a hearing before Congress, Democrats laid into Lake: “The Trump administration's allergy to truth and democracy is leading a short-sighted hatchet job on a critical tool for diplomacy and facts," New York Democrat Rep. Gregory Meeks said. "We should defend USAGM and free media, not rubber-stamp this dismantling.” Said Pennsylvania Democratic Rep. Madeleine Dean: “Adversaries are delighted at your plans to strip this agency. This is not reform – it's shutting down vital media with a rushed process and no serious assessment. You're acting as a propaganda machine for the Trump administration, harming our ability to promote truth abroad while our enemies fill the voids you've created.” Said Rhode Island Democrat Rep. Gabe Amo: “Under your leadership, USAGM has been shattered – cutting programs and funding, trying to shutter global news operations.” The Trump administration is challenging the latest court rulings that unravel nearly a year of reforms at the Agency. Meantime, the new head is Sarah Rogers with Lake staying on as deputy CEO. For more on this story, watch "Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson” Sunday. Attkisson's most recent book is "Follow the $cience: How Big Pharma Misleads, Obscures, and Prevails."

Mar 28, 202616 votes

One Election Day and only one Election Day

EWS Justice Alito just made it clear: He wants ONE Election DAY… March 23, 2026 (17 hours ago) https://revolver.news/2026/03/justice-alito-just-made-it-clear-he-wants-one-election-day/ Share Share Share Share Share Tweet Share Share Flip It Dems have been playing fast and loose with our elections for quite a while now. They keep testing every gimmick they can think of. Whatever they can do to make voting drag on longer, feel less secure, and leave more room for “funny business.” Of course the one thing they don’t want to do is the most obvious: voter ID. READ MORE: Election results are finally in: the European REVOLT is here… Their schemes are always sold as some kind of better “access” or more “convenience,” but what they’re really doing is turning a civic act into a chaotic, messy process that Americans don’t trust. That’s why this latest Supreme Court case matters so much. Election Day is supposed to mean something. It is supposed to be the day people vote, the day the rules are clear, and the day the country starts getting answers. Instead, we have been stuck with this absurd system where ballots keep showing up after the election, strangers can handle stacks of votes, and the public is just expected to smile and pretend this all looks perfectly normal. It doesn’t. It looks sloppy, and after the circus of 2020, people are right to be fed up. At bottom, this case is really about whether we still want real elections in this country or whether we are just going to keep letting activists and bureaucrats stretch the rules until Election Day means almost nothing at all. If the Court is finally ready to put some order back into this mess, that would be a very big deal. READ MORE: Researchers try to disprove Western claims about ‘low IQs in Africa’ and get BAD news… The case that’s in front of the Supreme Court goes right to the heart of one of the biggest problems in our election system: mail-in ballots arriving after Election Day and the bigger mess that’s blown up around mail voting. President Trump is trying to shut that down, and the ruling could shape how ballots are handled as we head into the 2026 midterms. OPB: The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing arguments on Monday to decide whether states can continue to count late-arriving mail ballots — an election issue targeted by President Donald Trump. All 50 states require ballots to be cast or postmarked on or before Election Day, but 14 states have grace periods for receiving and counting regular mailed ballots, ranging from a day to several weeks after the election. A final ruling will almost certainly come by late June, early enough to govern the counting of ballots in the 2026 midterm congressional elections. Here’s the latest: Arguments open with questions from conservative justices The arguments have opened with conservative justices asking questions about who a state can authorize to accept ballots. The subtext here is the practice that conservatives have targeted known as “ballot harvesting.” In some states, non-governmental officials like families or even neighbors or nursing home administrators, can collect sealed ballots from voters. Conservatives are pushing back on Mississippi’s argument that the 1845 law passed by Congress setting a date for Election Day doesn’t open the door to further regulations of state elections. Justice Samuel Alito cut to the chase when he asked Stewart: “So there are no limits?” The case wound through conservative 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Republicans looking to interest the justices in taking up the issue could have sued in New York, Illinois or Washington, among other states with relaxed deadlines for receiving mailed ballots. But they chose heavily Republican Mississippi to put the case in front of the 5th circuit, where a panel of three Trump appointees struck down the state law. The Supreme Court is much more likely to intervene when a lower court has struck down a state law, reasoning that the nation’s highest court should have the final word on such things. That question from Alito hits home: are there any limits, or not? Because that’s what this comes down to. The left acts like every safeguard is unfair, every deadline is harsh or racist, and every objection means you are somehow against “precious democracy.” But common sense people understand that rules are what make elections trustworthy. What makes this case even more important and interesting is that Alito brings up another big election issue: early voting. We’ve been drifting away from the basic idea of one day, one process, and one clean result for a really long time now. But, it happened bit by bit, and was always “dressed up” as progress and fairness and “democracy.” Time: The precursor to the idea was absentee voting, which essentially allows people to vote early and from afar if they aren’t going to be available on Election Day. NCSL’s Wendy Underhill says the earliest evidence the organization could find was “a list of eligible persons [who] were permitted to vote before Election Day” when Louisiana established “in-person absentee voting” in 1921. [….] By the late 1980s, Texas had become the first state to offer early in-person voting, for similar convenience reasons. In 1995, Oregon became the first state to conduct a federal primary election entirely by mail, prompted by the resignation of U.S. Senator Bob Packwood (after the Senate Ethics Committee found him guilty on charges of sexual harassment). Democrat Ron Wyden was elected in January of 1996 in what was the first mail-only general election to fill a federal seat, and he has held office since. In 2000, Oregon became the first all vote-by-mail state after a citizens initiative garnered 70% approval in 1998. Washington did the same in 2011 and Colorado did in 2013. After the Florida recount and “hanging chad” debacle of the 2000 presidential election, a wave of states started adopting early voting because they were worried election officials were too rushed on Election Day and that, as Gronke puts it, “reducing the pressures on election officials on Election Day would reduce the likelihood of long lines or polling place problems.” So, what started as some absentee voting for people with a real reason to be away slowly morphed into early voting, mail-only elections, and this endless election season nonsense we have now. Election Day is now “Election Month.” Justice Alito seems to understand this issue. In one of the best moments from the hearing, he took the whole thing back to a very basic point. Kyle Becker: Justice Alito just dropped the hammer on America’s need to restore ELECTION DAY. “We have lots of phrases that involve two words, the last of which, the second of which is DAY. Labor Day, Memorial Day, George Washington’s birthday, Independence Day, birth Day, and Election Day!” It is called Election Day, not Election Week, not Election Month, and not Election Whenever the Ballots Finally Stop Dribbling In. There are third-world countries that have better, more streamlined elections than we do. Alito is making it pretty clear that he is not a fan of this month-long voting circus, and honestly, good. One day, go cast your vote, count the ballots, and move on. That is how this should work in a serious country. But this is nothing new. Americans have watched one shady story after another come out of these loosey-goosey voting schemes Dems cook up. We recently wrote about one of the ugliest examples yet, involving serious allegations of ballot harvesting on California’s Skid Row. Revolver: There have been whispers and allegations about illegal ballot harvesting in California for eons. It’s been around a decade or so of people saying something feels off, especially in places where oversight isn’t happening and vulnerable populations are easy targets. Places like California’s Skid Row. Now, thanks to investigative journalist James O’Keefe, we’re getting a look at what might actually be going on behind the scenes in the left-wing plot to ballot harvest votes from desperate, vulnerable homeless people. O’Keefe and his team went undercover on Skid Row. They posed as homeless people, and what they captured on hidden camera is exactly the kind of sketchy stuff people have been warning about… a system where signatures and voter registrations are being collected in exchange for cash, cigarettes, and even drugs. Now, can you see why the SAVE Act is so important? This is exactly why election integrity laws are the number one conversation right now. Because if this is happening right out in the open on Skid Row, it’s not a stretch to think it’s happening elsewhere too. That’s the problem with a system this easy to game. Stories like this are why people are sick and tired of being told to just shut up and trust the process for the sake of “democracy.” That’s why this Supreme Court case matters because it could help put some much-needed guardrails back on a process that has gone off the rails. If the Court rules the right way, it could finally start shutting down one of the worst habits of modern elections: ballots flowing in like water after Election Day and being treated like that’s somehow normal. No. It’s absolutely not normal. READ MORE: DATA: Muslim and African immigrants are convicted of crimes 10–25X higher than native Danes…. We need to get our elections back to something simple and sane. If the Court is serious about protecting election integrity, this is the moment to prove it.

Mar 24, 202620 votes

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