Busted
Armstrong Williams Report Shows Spellings And Bush Lied
"And we didn't know about this in the White House "
--Bush, press conference, January 26, 2005
"During a meeting between the White House and Department officials on July 13, 2004, pertaining to communications strategy, the Special Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy briefly questioned the Deputy Director of OPA about the status of the Williams’ work request..."
--Page 8 Footnote, Inspector General's Report, Department of Education, today
It's there, buried in a footnote at the bottom of Page 8 in the just-released Department of Education Inspector General's report on the Armstrong Williams propaganda fiasco. Let's recap.
In short, Bush has said that "we didn't know about (the Williams contract) in the White House." Margaret Spellings, Bush's current Education Secretary and former Special Assistant for Domestic Policy, and her deputy then and Chief of Staff now David Dunn both say they didn't know about the contract either. But now we know why the release of the report was held until the Friday afternoon news dump.
Spellings and Dunn did know, and if they did, and given how close Spellings is to Bush, it is likely that Bush did too.
The report in total paints a portrait of a Department of Education that used its existing Ketchum contract to specifically funnel money to Armstrong Williams' company, when Secretary Paige himself says that he didn't have a relationship to Williams prior to the contract. If so, then who was making the decision to use Ketchum to push in essence payola for propaganda to Armstrong Williams, and as the report also notes, to pay him for services that DOE had no idea were ever delivered?
And to cap it off, Bush told the gullible White House press corps in January that not only he, but no one in the White House knew about the Williams' contract, when in fact the report approved and issued by his Special Assistant for Domestic Policy for four years and his associate for a decade before that confirms that she and her subordinate did in fact know about it and asked DOE staff about the status of the payola contract. Does anyone have a transcript of Spellings' confirmation testimony on January 6, 2005 to see if she testified under oath about this matter, because today's report brings responsibility for the payola-for-propaganda scam inside the White House.
And Representative George Miller of California, are you taking notes?
http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/004150.php
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CAUGHT ON TAPE
Republicans making death threats against judges.
http://thinkprogress.org/index.php?p=652
“Death solves all problems: no man, no problem.”
"And we didn't know about this in the White House "
--Bush, press conference, January 26, 2005
"During a meeting between the White House and Department officials on July 13, 2004, pertaining to communications strategy, the Special Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy briefly questioned the Deputy Director of OPA about the status of the Williams’ work request..."
--Page 8 Footnote, Inspector General's Report, Department of Education, today
It's there, buried in a footnote at the bottom of Page 8 in the just-released Department of Education Inspector General's report on the Armstrong Williams propaganda fiasco. Let's recap.
In short, Bush has said that "we didn't know about (the Williams contract) in the White House." Margaret Spellings, Bush's current Education Secretary and former Special Assistant for Domestic Policy, and her deputy then and Chief of Staff now David Dunn both say they didn't know about the contract either. But now we know why the release of the report was held until the Friday afternoon news dump.
Spellings and Dunn did know, and if they did, and given how close Spellings is to Bush, it is likely that Bush did too.
The report in total paints a portrait of a Department of Education that used its existing Ketchum contract to specifically funnel money to Armstrong Williams' company, when Secretary Paige himself says that he didn't have a relationship to Williams prior to the contract. If so, then who was making the decision to use Ketchum to push in essence payola for propaganda to Armstrong Williams, and as the report also notes, to pay him for services that DOE had no idea were ever delivered?
And to cap it off, Bush told the gullible White House press corps in January that not only he, but no one in the White House knew about the Williams' contract, when in fact the report approved and issued by his Special Assistant for Domestic Policy for four years and his associate for a decade before that confirms that she and her subordinate did in fact know about it and asked DOE staff about the status of the payola contract. Does anyone have a transcript of Spellings' confirmation testimony on January 6, 2005 to see if she testified under oath about this matter, because today's report brings responsibility for the payola-for-propaganda scam inside the White House.
And Representative George Miller of California, are you taking notes?
http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/004150.php
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
CAUGHT ON TAPE
Republicans making death threats against judges.
http://thinkprogress.org/index.php?p=652
“Death solves all problems: no man, no problem.”
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