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Subject: [Homestead] Our tax money at work--on covert propaganda against us
Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2005 07:58:49 -0500
Buying of News by Bush's Aides Is Ruled Illegal
By ROBERT PEAR
Published: October 1, 2005
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 - Federal auditors said on Friday that the Bush
administration violated the law by buying 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" in the United States, in violation of a statutory ban.