More Republican use of public funds to flack Bush issues?

<![CDATA[Promoting Instability? – Center for Media and Democracy: Noting that the U.S. Social Security Administration “has been promoting the idea that Social Security is facing a crisis,” and SSA has paid Fleishman-Hillard “nearly $1.8 million since September 2003,” the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington is wondering “what role, if any” the […]

<![CDATA[Promoting Instability? – Center for Media and Democracy:

Noting that the U.S. Social Security Administration “has been promoting the idea that Social Security is facing a crisis,” and SSA has paid Fleishman-Hillard “nearly $1.8 million since September 2003,” the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington is wondering “what role, if any” the PR firm “has played in manufacturing that crisis.”

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The word “prosecution” will need to be discussed sooner rather than later, because use of federal funds to pay for PR is illegal.]]>