Lawfare Daily: Tom Kent on the Dismantling of American Government Broadcasting

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🗓️ 25 March 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Tom Kent ran Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and is a longtime Russia watcher. He talks to Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes about President Trump’s executive order dismantling Voice of America and Radio Free Europe.

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