Freedom Center Investigates has lately been covering abuses at the Voice of America including attacking the Front Page Magazine,as ‘Islamophobic’, running Taliban attacks on Trump and employing an Afghan ex-Jihadist who had fought in a Jihadist group under Osama bin Laden’s mentor to attack Trump.
Now the end is near.
After our reporting, all employees at the VOA have been placed on administrative leave and many of the affairs of the Agency of Global Affairs Media are being wound down. I have mixed feelings about this. There was a time when we broadcast a true voice of freedom, but increasingly we are funding media outlets that, like most media outlets, are hostile to America and the cause of freedom. I’ve heard terrible things about the Persian language VOA being infiltrated by Iran regime supporters. And the VOA’s decision to push anti-Trump propaganda on Americans was a profound violation of its charter and mission.
I believe America should have a ‘voice’ to represent our message abroad, but the current system that was set up during the Cold War may no longer be salvageable. Anything infected by the media is simply a dead end.
Our investigation of USAID and VOA showed how bad the rot was.
USAID provided funding to set up a Mujahadeen propaganda network known as the Afghan Media Resource Center. The terror media network, which reportedly required all personnel to “sacrifice for holy jihad”, operated under the auspices of the United States Information Agency (USIA): the parent organization of Voice of America.
One of the points I made in my reporting on VOA’s growing extremism was that Democrats had repeatedly pushed it to report critically on the United States.
President John F. Kennedy had told Voice of America staffers that their mission was to “paint us ‘with all our blemishes and warts,’ all those things about us that may not be immediately attractive.” Taxpayers should not be paying to have an arm of the government telling the rest of the world that America is a terrible place. And certainly not sending that message to Americans.
