A veteran federal judge has turned up the heat on U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) senior adviser Kari Lake after the self-declared acting CEO apparently failed to show that the Voice of America (VOA) is functioning even at the legal bare minimum.

The former news anchor and failed Republican political candidate in late July sparked the concern of Ronald Reagan-appointed Senior U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth, who blasted the government's "cagey" answers and "misleading and contradictory information" on the operational status of the VOA.

Following President Donald Trump's executive order deeming the agency "the voice of radical America" in need of silencing, a group of journalists led by former VOA White House bureau chief Patsy Widakuswara and fired Director of the VOA Michael Abr

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