Audit scorches Bush's reading program:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14958046/
A scorching internal review of the Bush administration's
reading program says the Education Department ignored the law
and ethical standards to steer money how it wanted.
In one e-mail, the director told a staff member to come down
hard on a company he didn't support, according to the report
released Friday by the department's inspector general.
"They are trying to crash our party and we need to
beat the (expletive deleted) out of them in front of all
the other would-be party crashers who are standing on the
front lawn waiting to see how we welcome these dirtbags,"
the Reading First director wrote, according to the report.
Reading First aims to help young children read through
scientifically-proven programs, and the department considers
it a jewel of No Child Left Behind, Bush's education law.
The ranking Democrat on the House education committee
was furious.
"They should fire everyone who was involved in this,"
said Rep. George Miller, D-Calif. "This was not an accident,
this was not an oversight. This was an intentional effort to
corrupt the process."
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