House Dem: Plot To Oust Broadcast Board CEO 'Our Worst Nightmare'

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo




By Alice Ollstein | March 21, 2018 11:14 am

The top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee says whistleblowers have detailed a plot by the Trump administration to oust the CEO of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) and replace him with someone favored by the White House.

Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY) warned in a letter to the BBG, obtained by TPM, that that candidate, André Mendes, then plans to dismiss the existing Board of Governors, according to the whistleblowers.

In a statement to TPM, Engel called the alleged plot “our worst nightmare coming true.”

“This action would violate current law and represent what these whistleblowers have described as ‘a coup at the BBG,’ presumably with the aim of pushing the BBG’s journalism toward a viewpoint favorable of (sic) the Trump Administration,” Engel wrote to the BBG. “I view these claims as credible and this scenario as outrageous and unacceptable.”

Read more: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/house-dem-plot-to-oust-broadcast-board-ceo-our-worst-nightmare

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Nazi fascism, right here in River City.

[poboy2]

2. Someone needs to intervene immediately before all is lost.

code red.

[OldHippieChick]

3. OMG

There are no other words.

[dhill926]

4. fascism on the march....

this really bears watching...

[Nitram]

7. Well, maybe "fascism trying to figure out how to march, and in what direction."

We are fortunate that this administration is the most incompetent, disorganized, chaotic, and clueless bunch of goons ever to grace the White House.

[vkkv]

5. Scarey stuff. Absolute control of the media by either side would be the end of democracy.

Divide & conquer.. it really is working.

[RVN VET71]

6. And soon the world will hear of Hero Trump's exploits

as a special ops officer in Vietnam, a tank commander in Iraq 1, a Seal Team 6 member who single handedly saved the rest of the assault team and fought through a hail of bullets to take out Bin Laden, before winning the presidency by 76% of the popular vote and rushing into a high-school armed only with his dauntless courage and dogged determination to take out a crazed, Liberal shooter before any students got hurt.

MAGA?

[scipan]

8. about BBG

The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) is an independent agency of the United States government.[1] According to its website, its mission is to "inform, engage, and connect people around the world in support of freedom and democracy."[2] The BBG supervised Voice of America (VOA), Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio y Television Marti, Radio Free Asia, and the Middle East Broadcast Networks.[3]

The board of the BBG was eliminated and replaced with a single appointed chief executive officer as part of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017, which was passed in December 2016.[4][5][6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcasting_Board_of_Governors

Already happened?

edit: elsewhere in the entry it says the Board was changed to an advisory capacity only.