Why does NPR hire CIA agents as its CEO?

[lfromnj]

https://www.thefp.com/p/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-trust

You need to start with former CEO John Lansing. Lansing came to NPR in 2019 from the federally funded agency that oversees Voice of America. Like others who have served in the top job at NPR, he was hired primarily to raise money and to ensure good working relations with hundreds of member stations that acquire NPR’s programming.

Ok there's a somewhat media argument but still Voice of America is American propaganda although they can have fairly good reporting at times(IIRC they reported on drunk Russian soldiers in Belarus before the invasion)

Maher subsequently studied at the Institut français d'études arabes de Damas in Syria and spent time in Lebanon and Tunisia.[2][13][14]

https://christopherrufo.com/p/katherine-mahers-color-revolution

During the volatile Arab Spring period, under a constantly rotating series of NGO affiliations, Maher went to multiple countries that were undergoing U.S.-backed regime change. Beginning in 2011, for example, she traveled multiple times to Tunisia, working with regime-change activists and government officials. In 2012, she traveled to a strategic city on the Turkey-Syria border, which had become a base for Western-backed opposition to Bashar al-Assad. That same year, she traveled to Libya, where the U.S. had just overthrown strongman Muammar Gaddafi.

All this info was on her wikipedia page a few months ago but they seemed to have scrubbed. Such an obvious glowie.

Rufo's the source but I heard about her months before Rufo and I knew she was a fed agent.

[dead0man]

interesting story.  Don't ask one question as a title and another very different question as the poll question.  It's confusing.

[lfromnj]

interesting story.  Don't ask one question as a title and another very different question as the poll question.  It's confusing.

The title question is more open ended while the inside question is just to see if people can tell she's some sort of agent.

[dead0man]

<playing devil's advocate here>so the theory is that she is still loyal to the CIA, still getting paid by the CIA...both?  Are you suggesting she's more loyal to the CIA than the USA?  Or that she might she might push NPR to cover more stories that make the CIA look good, or fewer stories that make it look bad?  Are ex-CIA agents allowed to work anywhere else without it being suspicious?

[lfromnj]

<playing devil's advocate here>so the theory is that she is still loyal to the CIA, still getting paid by the CIA...both?  Are you suggesting she's more loyal to the CIA than the USA?  Or that she might she might push NPR to cover more stories that make the CIA look good, or fewer stories that make it look bad?  Are ex-CIA agents allowed to work anywhere else without it being suspicious?

Color revolutions are a good thing but those who helped orchestrate them  certainly shouldn't be part of domestic media. If she wants to go work in some company and be a manager. It's just the fact they are propagandists at heart. To be specific I don't think she was a full time CIA agent but rather an asset helping the CIA or other US agencies .

[xavier110]

It’s funny because R*fo checks a lot of the boxes of being associated w/in*elligence. Manhattan institute, Georgetown, under Tucker’s wing, etc

[dead0man]

It’s funny because R*fo checks a lot of the boxes of being associated w/in*elligence. Manhattan institute, Georgetown, under Tucker’s wing, etc

yeah, but he made the right people look stupid with the Gay plagiarism so he gets a bit of a pass