IG ignores security lapses at VoA parent agency

The State Department’s in-house watchdog and congressional Republicans have very different appraisals of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), the government-run news agency responsible for broadcasting America’s message to the world.The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) shrugged at concerns by USAGM’s first Senate-confirmed CEO, Michael Pack, that it had routinely ignored security protocols “for at least a decade” while using the same visas intended for au pairs to hire foreign nationals as journalists.
By contrast, House Foreign Affairs Committee GOP members continue hounding the agency for rehiring senior officials dismissed by Pack for security and financial lapses — and in one case, inventing a doctorate — once the Biden administration took office.
A week before the new president fired him, Pack formally asked OIG to investigate USAGM’s myriad problems dating back to the first Obama term. Eleven months later, on Dec. 27, OIG p …

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