8. Media Agencies (USAGM, CPB) · Minor
Remove USAGM personnel reinstated after firings for security violations
Printed page 239 8. Media Agencies (USAGM, CPB)
“Unfortunately, as was the case with the OTF, the Biden Administration immediately reinstated personnel who had been fired for gross security violations, placing the agency back into its previously failed posture—one that poses a danger to national security.”
What has happened
- Not started
No record identifies the removal of personnel who had been reinstated after firings for security violations. USAGM's 2025-03-15 statement asserts "massive national security violations, including spies and terrorist sympathizers and/or supporters infiltrating the agency" as a general finding, and the agency placed most staff on paid administrative leave that day and issued revised reduction-in-force notices to 532 employees on 2025-08-29 — but that is an across-the-board reduction, not the targeted removal the Quote asks for, and the court records it as taken under an injunction that suspends it. The same opinion holds that actions taken by the acting CEO have no force or effect.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
- Progress is measured on this ask: a mass reduction in force is not the removal of the specific reinstated personnel the Quote names, and nothing published identifies them.
- One search covered the USAGM service and internal-management asks that have no instrument on a source we accept as Evidence: #615, #617, #619, #620, #624, #626, #627, #630, #632 and #633.
- Action
- other
- Object
- USAGM personnel reinstated after security-violation firings
- ID
- 617