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USAGM: Past Agency Leaders Ignored National Security Procedures, Failed to Adequately Vet Staff
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previous agency leaders “repeatedly ignored protocols and other federal government human resources practices, placing U.S. national security and USAGM’s ability in grave danger.”
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Former USAGM CEO John Lansing, an Obama-era appointee who left in 2019 to head National Public Radio (NPR), received a report from OPM in August 2019 identifying 37 recommendations and giving him 90 days to bring the agency into compliance or face additional steps including revocation of “delegated adjudicative authority”.
In early 2020, after another followup involving reviews of documents and interviews of USAGM managers and employees, OPM said the agency had failed to act on 19 of those 37 recommendations and threatened to revoke its “delegated investigative authority.”
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The senior official said the failures by previous agency leaders and managers “left USAGM and our nation gravely exposed”.
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“At present, the identities and backgrounds of at least 1,500 individuals at USAGM – around 40 percent of the agency’s entire workforce – are not fully known,” the official said.
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The report quotes the Operations Branch Chief as stating at one point that “each classifier made their own decisions and relied “more or less” on their personal judgment rather than any sort of standardized designation system. . .[and] usually designated positions based on what the hiring manager wanted.”
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Some jobs labeled by the agency as non-critical/sensitive, were OPM-assessed as “high risk/public trust, meaning positions with exceptionally serious impact on the integrity or efficiency of the mission. “
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Set up originally as an exchange program for scholars, J-1 visas provided opportunities for agencies to bring in needed talent.But that’s how VOA has been using it” said one source who requested anonymity. “There are plenty of Americans in the U.S. diaspora who can do these jobs.”
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Another individual recruited by the VOA from a foreign country and given a J-1 demanded that a family member also receive a visa. The family member was expected to work for VOA but never did, yet ended up remaining in the U.S.
#Corruption #VOAFarsi #USAGM #BBG
https://bbgwatch.com/bbgwatch/usagm-past-agency-leaders-ignored-national-security-procedures-failed-to-adequately-vet-staff/
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USAGM: Past Agency Leaders Ignored National Security Procedures, Failed to Adequately Vet Staff
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previous agency leaders “repeatedly ignored protocols and other federal government human resources practices, placing U.S. national security and USAGM’s ability in grave danger.”
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Former USAGM CEO John Lansing, an Obama-era appointee who left in 2019 to head National Public Radio (NPR), received a report from OPM in August 2019 identifying 37 recommendations and giving him 90 days to bring the agency into compliance or face additional steps including revocation of “delegated adjudicative authority”.
In early 2020, after another followup involving reviews of documents and interviews of USAGM managers and employees, OPM said the agency had failed to act on 19 of those 37 recommendations and threatened to revoke its “delegated investigative authority.”
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The senior official said the failures by previous agency leaders and managers “left USAGM and our nation gravely exposed”.
.
“At present, the identities and backgrounds of at least 1,500 individuals at USAGM – around 40 percent of the agency’s entire workforce – are not fully known,” the official said.
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The report quotes the Operations Branch Chief as stating at one point that “each classifier made their own decisions and relied “more or less” on their personal judgment rather than any sort of standardized designation system. . .[and] usually designated positions based on what the hiring manager wanted.”
.
Some jobs labeled by the agency as non-critical/sensitive, were OPM-assessed as “high risk/public trust, meaning positions with exceptionally serious impact on the integrity or efficiency of the mission. “
.
Set up originally as an exchange program for scholars, J-1 visas provided opportunities for agencies to bring in needed talent.But that’s how VOA has been using it” said one source who requested anonymity. “There are plenty of Americans in the U.S. diaspora who can do these jobs.”
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Another individual recruited by the VOA from a foreign country and given a J-1 demanded that a family member also receive a visa. The family member was expected to work for VOA but never did, yet ended up remaining in the U.S.
#Corruption #VOAFarsi #USAGM #BBG
https://bbgwatch.com/bbgwatch/usagm-past-agency-leaders-ignored-national-security-procedures-failed-to-adequately-vet-staff/
@iranhamava
BBG and USAGM Watch
USAGM: Past Agency Leaders Ignored National Security Procedures, Failed to Adequately Vet Staff
USAGM Watch Commentary By Dan Robinson OPM Report Details Serious Deficiencies That New USAGM CEO Says Placed U.S. National Security In Grave Danger The U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), which …
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آژانس رسانه های جهانی آمریکا: مدیران گذشته‌ی آژانس رویه های امنیت ملی را نادیده گرفتند و به اندازه کافی کارکنان را مورد بررسی قرار ندادند.
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مدیران قبلی آژانس "مرتباً از پروتكلها و سایر روشهای منابع انسانی دولت فدرال چشم پوشی كرده و امنیت ملی آمریكا و توانایی آژانس رسانه‌های جهانی آمریکا را در معرض خطر جدی قرار می دادند."
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جان لنسینگ مدیر عامل سابق USAGM،که در دوران اوباما منصوب شده بود، در سال ۲۰۱۹ مقامش را برای ریاست رادیوی عمومی ملی (NPR) ترک کرد، در اوت ۲۰۱۹ گزارشی را از OPM دریافت کرد که ۳۷ توصیه را مشخص کرده بود و به او ۹۰ روز فرصت می داد تا آژانس را با توصیه ها مطابقت دهد یا با اقدامات بعدی از جمله ابطال "صلاحیت اجرایی برای تصمیم گیری" روبرو شود.
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در اوایل سال ۲۰۲۰ ، پس از پیگیری دیگری که به بررسی اسناد و مصاحبه های مدیران و کارمندان آژانس رسانه‌های جهانی آمریکا انجامید ، OPM گفت آژانس نتوانسته است به ۱۹ مورد از این ۳۷ توصیه عمل کند و تهدید کرد که "صلاحیت اعطا شده برای تحقیقات" را باطل می کند.
#Corruption #VOAFarsi #USAGM #BBG
@iranhamava
آژانس رسانه های جهانی آمریکا: مدیران گذشته‌ی آژانس رویه های امنیت ملی را نادیده گرفتند و به اندازه کافی کارکنان را مورد بررسی قرار ندادند.
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مدیران قبلی آژانس "مرتباً از پروتكلها و سایر روشهای منابع انسانی دولت فدرال چشم پوشی كرده و امنیت ملی آمریكا و توانایی آژانس رسانه‌های جهانی آمریکا را در معرض خطر جدی قرار می دادند."
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جان لنسینگ مدیر عامل سابق USAGM،که در دوران اوباما منصوب شده بود، در سال ۲۰۱۹ مقامش را برای ریاست رادیوی عمومی ملی (NPR) ترک کرد، در اوت ۲۰۱۹ گزارشی را از OPM دریافت کرد که ۳۷ توصیه را مشخص کرده بود و به او ۹۰ روز فرصت می داد تا آژانس را با توصیه ها مطابقت دهد یا با اقدامات بعدی از جمله ابطال "صلاحیت اجرایی برای تصمیم گیری" روبرو شود.
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در اوایل سال ۲۰۲۰ ، پس از پیگیری دیگری که به بررسی اسناد و مصاحبه های مدیران و کارمندان آژانس رسانه‌های جهانی آمریکا انجامید ، OPM گفت آژانس نتوانسته است به ۱۹ مورد از این ۳۷ توصیه عمل کند و تهدید کرد که "صلاحیت اعطا شده برای تحقیقات" را باطل می کند.
#Corruption #VOAFarsi #USAGM #BBG
@iranhamava
The peaceful protest of #Isfahan citizens including farmers for water shortage to their marks and the drought of #Zayande_Rud because of mismanagement and #corruption ended by #brutal attak from the Basij beaten elderly farmers and citizens
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Saturday 27 November 2021 # Isfahan
According to the Human_Rights Organisation in Iran, during the protests in Isfahan on Friday, there are more than 120 citizens arrested and brought to Dastgerd #Prison.
In the report of The Human Rights Organisation in Iran its stated that 3 of the protesters brought to the prisons hospital and the morgue " probably they have been killed"
The peaceful protest of #Isfahan citizens including farmers for water shortage to their marks and the drought of #Zayande_Rud because of mismanagement and #corruption ended by #brutal attak from the Basij beaten elderly farmers and citizens
@iranhamava
According to the Human_Rights Organisation in Iran, during the protests in Isfahan on Friday, there are more than 120 citizens arrested and brought to Dastgerd #Prison.
In the report of The Human Rights Organisation in Iran its stated that 3 of the protesters brought to the prisons hospital and the morgue " probably they have been killed"
The peaceful protest of #Isfahan citizens including farmers for water shortage to their marks and the drought of #Zayande_Rud because of mismanagement and #corruption ended by #brutal attak from the Basij beaten elderly farmers and citizens
@iranhamava