Senator Tom Coburn —

BBG structure leads to no accountability, that is, each member of the Board is solely responsible for a certain area or type of broadcasting and members generally have an unwritten mutual no-meddling policy – meaning each member avoids weighing in on the broadcasting supervised by other members.

From U.S. Senator Tom Coburn’s website: Transparency: BBG content is untransparent: studies have to be commissioned in order to find out what Americans are paying to broadcast all over the world. This is not real oversight. Read more