Senior lawmakers query HHS over possible continued use of illegal video news releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Three senior Democratic lawmakers want to know if the Health and Human Services Department is still distributing prepackaged video news stories to U.S. television stations despite two findings by the Government Accountability Office that the department’s practices were illegal.
The lawmakers wrote to HHS Secretary Michael Leavitt today because of an article about covert propaganda posted to a website, Corpwatch.org, that gives the impression that HHS continued to use the video news releases even after the GAO reported its findings. To reiterate GAO’s conclusion, U.S. Comptroller General David Walker sent a letter to all federal agencies on February 17 warning them that the use of prepackaged news stories is illegal.
The letter was sent by Rep. George Miller (CA), the senior Democrat on the House Education and the Workforce Committee; Rep. Henry A. Waxman (CA), the senior Democrat on the House Government Reform Committee; and Rep. Rosa DeLauro (CT), co-chair of the Democratic Steering and Policy Committee. The three lawmakers have been aggressively pursuing numerous instances of illegal government propaganda by the Bush Administration.
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