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"magilla" |
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30 Sep 2005 07:12:54 PM |
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OT: More bad news for Bush- they broke the law, says GAO |
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 - Federal auditors said today that the Bush
administration had violated the law by purchasing favorable news
coverage of President Bush's education policies, by making payments to
the conservative commentator Armstrong Williams and by hiring a public
relations company to analyze media perceptions of the Republican Party.
In a blistering report, the investigators, from the Government
Accountability Office, said the administration had disseminated "covert
propaganda" inside the United States, in violation of a longstanding,
explicit statutory ban.
From:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/30/politics/30cnd-educ.html?hp&ex=1128139200&en=366c3a62f5665c5a&ei=5094&partner=homepage
I'm shocked. Shocked, I say.
Chris
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| Title: Re: OT: More bad news for Bush- they broke the law, says GAO |
02 Oct 2005 10:38:04 AM |
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On 30 Sep 2005 17:12:54 -0700, "magilla" <chris.linthompson@gmail.com>
wrote:
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 - Federal auditors said today that the Bush
administration had violated the law by purchasing favorable news
coverage of President Bush's education policies, by making payments to
the conservative commentator Armstrong Williams and by hiring a public
relations company to analyze media perceptions of the Republican Party.
In a blistering report, the investigators, from the Government
Accountability Office, said the administration had disseminated "covert
propaganda" inside the United States, in violation of a longstanding,
explicit statutory ban.
From:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/30/politics/30cnd-educ.html?hp&ex=1128139200&en=366c3a62f5665c5a&ei=5094&partner=homepage
I'm shocked. Shocked, I say.
/me drown in the tsunami of sarcasm.
It's all the vaunted Christian Morality®.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/3377364
Oct. 1, 2005, 1:01AM
'No Child' effort called propaganda
Administration violated the law with 'news' video, columnist's hiring,
GAO report says
By ROBERT PEAR
New York Times
WASHINGTON - Federal auditors said Friday that the Bush administration
had violated the law by purchasing favorable news coverage of
President Bush's education policies, by making payments to the
conservative commentator Armstrong Williams and by hiring a public
relations company to analyze media perceptions of the Republican
Party.
In a blistering report, the investigators, from the Government
Accountability Office, said the administration had disseminated
"covert propaganda" inside the United States, in violation of a
longstanding explicit statutory ban.
The contract with Williams and the general contours of the
administration's public relations campaign had been known for months.
The report Friday provided the first definitive ruling on the legality
of the activities.
Lawyers from the GAO, an independent nonpartisan arm of Congress,
found that the Bush administration had systematically analyzed news
articles to see if they carried the message, "The Bush
administration/the GOP is committed to education."
The auditors declared: "We see no use for such information except for
partisan political purposes."
The GAO also criticized the Education Department for telling Ketchum
Inc., a large public relations company, to pay Williams for newspaper
columns and television appearances praising Bush's education
initiative, the No Child Left Behind Act.
The GAO said the Education Department had no money or authority to
"procure favorable commentary in violation of the publicity or
propaganda prohibition" in federal law.
In the course of its work, the accountability office discovered a
previously undisclosed instance in which the Education Department had
commissioned a newspaper article. The article, on the "declining
science literacy of students," was distributed by the North American
Precis Syndicate and appeared in numerous small newspapers around the
country. Readers were not informed of the government's role in the
writing of the article.
The auditors also denounced a prepackaged television news story
disseminated by the Education Department. The news segment, a "video
news release" narrated by a woman named Karen Ryan, said that Bush's
program for providing remedial instruction and tutoring to children
"gets an A-plus."
Ryan also narrated two videos praising the new Medicare drug benefit
last year. In those segments, as in the education video, the narrator
ended by saying, "In Washington, I'm Karen Ryan reporting."
The prepackaged television news segments on education and on Medicare
did not inform audiences that they had been prepared and distributed
by the government.
© 2005 New York Times
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Contempt of Congress meter reading-offscale.
Hello, theocracy with a fundamentalist US Supreme
Court who will ensure church and state are joined
at the hip like clergy and altar boys.
America 1776-Jan 2001 RIP
"As democracy is perfected, the office of president
represents, more and more closely, the inner soul
of the people. On some great and glorious day the
plain folks of the land will reach their heart's
desire at last and the White House will be adorned
by a downright moron." --- H.L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Religion is the original war crime.
-Michelle Malkin (Feb 26, 2005)
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