bushCartel ignore GAO ruling, say COVERT PROPAGANDA is ok

[LynnTheDem]

Of course bush is above mere laws and ethics.


Administration Rejects Ruling On PR Videos
GAO Called Tapes Illegal Propaganda

The Bush administration, rejecting an opinion from the Government Accountability Office, said last week that it is legal for federal agencies to feed TV stations prepackaged news stories that do not disclose the government's role in producing them.

In an interview yesterday, Walker said the administration's approach is both contrary to appropriations law and unethical.

"This is more than a legal issue. It's also an ethical issue and involves important good government principles, namely the need for openness in connection with government activities and expenditures," Walker said. "We should not just be seeking to do what's arguably legal. We should be doing what's right."

"Whether in the form of a payment to an actual journalist, or through the creation of a fake one, it is wrong to deceive the public with the creation of phony news stories,"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35010-2005Mar14.html?referrer=emailarticle