RICHARD STENGEL

"British colonialism, which she presided over for all these years, had a terrible effect on much of the world," Richard Stengel said.

President Joe Biden's administration has refused to share evidence for national security claims in recent days, and officials have even accused reporters of buying into foreign propaganda.

Biden's USAGM transition team leader is Richard Stengel, an MSNBC political analyst and former managing editor at Time magazine. A Biden transition spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment. Names to replace Pack that have been floated to Biden agency review members include Grant Turner, who was once USAGM's acting CEO, this person said. The Biden team also conferred with Steve Capus, a former senior advisor at USAGM, who was ousted at the start of Pack's tenure. A spokeswoman for NPR did not deny that Lansing spoke to Biden's transition team and declined to comment further.

By Bill Thompson More Content NowIm not much of a conspiracy theorist. Nonetheless, sometimes a confluence of events makes you pause, as I have recently, about weighing conspiracy against coincidence. Liberals were not amused and demanded Zuckerberg police political speech by rejecting ads they consider misleading. Finally, Richard Stengel, a former editor of Time magazine and once a high-ranking official in the Obama State Department, called for America to adopt hate speech laws. I dont believe Zuckerbergs critics, the Woodwards and Bernsteins probing the Conan photo and Stengel colluded to surface almost simultaneously.