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Kari Lake called the US Agency for Global Media ‘rotten to the core’ in a congressional hearing

Poynter · Angela Fu · last updated

United States Agency for Global Media senior adviser Kari Lake testified before Congress Wednesday that her agency is a place “rotten to the core” that needs to be eliminated.

“Within days in my role as senior adviser, it became increasingly clear that reform was nearly impossible,” Lake said during a House Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing titled “Spies, Lies, and Mismanagement: Examining the U.S. Agency for Global Media’s Downfall.” “The agency was incompetent and mismanaged and deeply corrupt, politically biased and, frankly, a serious threat to our national security.”

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