User Clip: Rep. Gerald Connolly (D-VA) Criticizes USAGM CEO Michael Pack at House Foreign Affairs Committee Hearing

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. There is a fallacy in the logic of my friend who just spoke in positing that there were a series of problems over the last ten or 20 years and that’s why we had to have a total purge and the dismantlement of programs that in fact are effective, reach audiences and propound the democratic point of view in authoritarian societies. That is false logic. If there are problems, you clean them up.You don’t dismantle and purge the organization. And that is what we’re talking about. If the actions Mr. Perry says are justifiable, I would assume Mr. Pack would run, not walk, to this hearing to propound his philosophy and defend his actions, and explain them. His actions speak volumes about the fact that a) he doesn’t believe apparently in his own accountability while justifying his purges as an active accountability for others, and he apparently he doesn’t have confidence in his own actions, so called “reforms,” to come before the committee to justify them.

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