Republicans on the House Foreign Affairs Committee summoned President Biden's U.S. Agency for Global Media CEO, Amanda Bennett, and two other officials to testify last week about what committee chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas) called a "culture of corruption" at the federal bureaucracy in charge of U.S. government's international media outreach.

Unfortunately, they did not explore one of the most outrageous but still largely hidden scandals at Voice of America. I'm referring to multiple social media posts with hateful messages directed at Donald Trump, uploaded by the agency's federal employees over many months during Bennett's previous tenure as the Obama-appointed VOA director.

The subcommittee hearing took place before the assassination attempt on former President Trump and focused on other recent misdeeds at Bennett's agency. But as the attempt on Trump's life has forced many Americans to re-examine the culture of political and personal hatred that is destroying this country, it is worth pondering how some federally employed VOA journalists working in a little-known billion-dollar government-media operation made vile and hateful anti-Trump posts from the same private social media accounts where they identify themselves as VOA journalists.

VOA once helped the U.S. win the Cold War by transmitting uncensored radio broadcasts to countries behind the Iron Curtain. It still has a vital national security role to play. So why are its employees degrading its past and purpose by behaving so unprofessionally in spreading hatred against an American politician who may soon be president again.

I felt compelled in June 2016 to warn Bennett, who was then in charge of VOA, that several of its English newsroom reporters were posting highly offensive anti-Trump hate memes and........

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