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email Anonymous Voice Of America Employees Protest New Director
Robert Reilly has a “troubling history of mismanagement at VOA” and is “openly hostile to Muslims and Gays,” wrote the whistleblowers’ senior counsel.
On Monday, a group of anonymous Voice of America employees asked their parent agency to rescind the appointment of their new, “controversial” director.
The Government Accountability Project, a whistleblower advocacy group that represents current and former staff members at VOA, sent a letter to U.S. Agency for Global Media CEO Michael Pack on the employees’ behalf. This was five days after Pack brought in Robert Reilly, conservative author and former government official during Republican administrations, to be director of VOA, replacing a 40-year veteran of the agency. Elez Biberaj, who has been at VOA since 1980, was installed as acting director in June 2020 after Director Amanda Bennett and her deputy resigned