Sayhey
Sep 30, 2005, 08:08 PM
Well I thought we might as well start with the fact all the civil servants in the GAO must be liberals/leftists to issue such a report as this:
Audit Assails the White House for Public Relations Spending
By ROBERT PEAR
Published: September 30, 2005
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.... emphasis added New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/30/politics/30cnd-educ.html?ex=1285732800&en=bd87c1608d1556a7&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss)
Audit Assails the White House for Public Relations Spending
By ROBERT PEAR
Published: September 30, 2005
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.... emphasis added New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/30/politics/30cnd-educ.html?ex=1285732800&en=bd87c1608d1556a7&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss)
