Voice of America: Carrying Water for the Mullahs?
The following is a letter from Reza Kahlili to _______, who is conducting a probe into Voice of America.
Dear Sir or Madam:
My name is Reza Kahlili. I am a former CIA agent who worked inside the Revolutionary Guards of Iran.
I was invited by Voice of America’s Persian News Network to do an interview on Thursday, April 15. The interview lasted 45 minutes and consisted of a line of questioning designed more to condemn me and America’s interference in Iran’s internal affairs than anything else. During the interview, I remained steadfast in my opinion that the Islamic regime was unjust, and I recounted many of their crimes. I also revealed some of their secrets. I went to a great deal of trouble to appear at their studio in Los Angeles, covering part of my face with a mask and hiring a bodyguard.
To date, they have not aired any part of that interview and have refused to respond to my numerous requests as to whether they ever intend to air the interview.
I believe some at Voice of America might have had a different agenda than just interviewing me.
I am writing this letter after learning about a probe into Voice of America’s refusal to air any material that is considered unfriendly to the regime in Tehran. I have appeared on Fox, MSNBC, and many other media outlets in America stating my concerns over the current Iranian regime and what needs to be done. I have revealed some of their secrets and their activities on their nuclear bomb project.
I am very concerned that Voice of America, a U.S.-funded organization, has so far refused to air my views. They requested the interview!
The ongoing probe into Voice of America should include this inquiry. The U.S.-funded Voice of America should not be used as a propaganda tool of the Iranian regime. The people of Iran deserve to know the truth.
Respectfully,
Reza Kahlili
It seems outrageously clear that powerful forces within the US have zero interest in confronting the Iranian menace, evidenced by this report,by their refusal to pay attention to credible evidence that Osama is hiding in Iran, and by their cowardly stand downs, as Iranian forces come up close and personal taunting/gathering intel on US warships. Pathetic.
Therefore, one would have to be foolish in the extreme to think that BHO will do anything to stop the mad mullahs from going nuclear. Therefore, no one should be shocked when Israeli forces act alone.
Pro-Islam, anti-free world? These people are given places of power in the U.S government.
CELEBRATING 9/11 AT THE FBI By: Paul Sperry
FrontPageMagazine.com February 11, 2004
When linguist Sibel Dinez Edmonds showed up for her first day of work at the FBI, a week after the 9-11 attacks, she expected to find a somber atmosphere. Instead, she was offered cookies filled with dates from party bowls set out in the room where other Middle Eastern linguists with top-secret security clearance translate terror-related communications.
She knew the dessert is customarily served in the Middle East at weddings, births and other celebrations, and asked what the happy occasion was. To her shock, she was told the Arab linguists were celebrating the terrorist attacks on America, as if they were some joyous event. Right in front of her supervisor, one translator cheered:
“It’s about time they got a taste of what they’ve been giving the Middle East.”
She found out later that it was her supervisor’s wife who helped organize the office party. At the time, the supervisor, Mike Feghali, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Beirut, was in charge of the FBI’s Turkish and Farsi desks. But he’s been promoted since then.
“We were told to take long breaks, to slow down translations, and to simply say ‘no’ to those field agents calling us to beg for speedy translations so that they could go on with their investigations and interrogations of those they had detained,” said Edmonds, who was fired without specified cause by the FBI after she reported breaches in security, mistranslations and potential espionage by Middle Eastern colleagues.
She claims Feghali actually tampered with her work to slow her down.
“My supervisor went as far as getting into my work computer and deleting almost completed work so that I had to go back and start all over again,” she said.
Edmonds, a Turkish-American who is not a practicing Muslim, made the allegations last month in a 9-page letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
She also claims that Feghali threatened to sue the bureau for racial discrimination, but dropped the suit once the bureau promoted him, says Edmonds and other sources. The FBI instated a bureau-wide Muslim-sensitivity training program after 9-11. http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=14210
This is so outrageous that it tickles my BS radar!
Can you prove any of this?
What I would suspect is happening is the following: the Voice of America is intended to provide a counter-narrative to that of the autocrats keeping the Iranian people under their thumb.
In order to create a counter-narrative, you must possess moral coherence.
This Administration is functionally nihilistic. They want power over everyone and everything in the country, and everything else is secondary.
Therefore, they don’t care about the Iranian people.
Extended, it would follow logically that it is impossible to speak about the “crimes” of others, when you recognize no universal moral code. Asking the VOA to its job, therefore, is distasteful and rude. Hell, it might make the Iranians dislike us.
The people running our country currently really are that dumb. One shudders to think it, but history is replete with the most unbelievable crimes committed for the most idiotic of reasons.
President Barack Obama has shown earlier that he is anti-democratic, supporting despotic and dictatorial regimes, e.g. bowing before the king of Saudi Arabia, supporting Hugo Chavez, supporting Vladimir Putin, and opposing democrats, being rude to the Dalai Lama, to the Prime Minister of England, to the Prime Minister of Israel, withdrawing anti-missile equipment from Poland and the Czech Republic in deference to Russia. He does not support the dissidents in Iran, so I imagine that it is on his orders that the Voice of America is a shill for the dictators of Iran.
Part of the reason I’d always encourage folks “over there” to listen to RFE/RL and their divisions, such as Radio Farda, instead of Voice of America. They’re still a bit tilted, but not afraid to confront regimes like the one in Iran.
Mr. Kahlili,
PNN thanks you for taking the time recently to meet with one of our reporters for an interview. We appreciate your effort.
We do want to point out that throughout the news business, it is generally accepted practice that conducting an interview does not guarantee the interviewee that his or her views will always be broadcast. In fact, sometimes producers and editors decide for one reason or another that a particular interview will not be used at all. Sometimes interviews are conducted and held for use at a later time. In your case, the interview was just one part in the editorial process for this project, which remains a work in progress.
We would also stress to you that PNN abides by the VOA Charter, which mandates that we be “accurate, objective, and comprehensive.”
Sincerely,
David Borgida
Acting Director
VOA Public Relations
Newsmax also had a report recently indicating that certain elements in the management of the VOA were censuring anti-Iran news. Some VOA reporters who were fired for objecting to that have indicated the same.Hassan Zare Zadeh is one of them who is openly speaking about their censorship. I guess VOA is more concerned about appeasing the mad mullahs than reporting the truth. Their PR must be worried, otherwise why post on blogs.lol
VOA has undergone some radicalization in the last couple of decades – very leftist bent – my father worked there for 30 years from late 50′s to 80′s – I can only imagine now with Obama it will be used as an instrument for state-sonsored censorship and propaganda – that’s so sad and full of irony.
Thank you so much to the writer for his efforts on behalf of suffering Iranian innocents and indeed, the entire Free World! Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom!
It is wrong and profoundly immoral that Americans are forced to finance Voice of America which, as the writer states, is used as a propaganda tool for the Iranian regime — a regime which is extremely cruel and barbaric. Very ominous. Has the government abandoned beliefs in mercy, freedom and human rights not just for Iranians, but down the road, also for Americans???