That's a lot of propaganda!
Bush administration spent 1.6 billion on public relations: report
Mon Feb 13, 8:19 PM ET
WASHINGTON (AFP) - President George W. Bush's administration spent 1.62 billion dollars on advertising and public relations contracts over two and a half years, an independent agency said.
The Department of Defense spent more than any other government agency on media-related contracts, paying 1.1 billion dollars for recruitment campaigns and other public relations efforts, according to a report by the Government Accountablity Office (GAO), an investigative, non-partisan arm of Congress.
The department funded activities including presenting "the Army's strategic perspective in the Global War on Terrorism," the report said.
The GAO said the report was based on a questionnaire answered by seven federal departments covering 2003, 2004 and the first two quarters of 2005.
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