What with the news of the NSA, the nation's most secretive rogue intelligence agency, collecting a massive database on the telephone contacts of most everyone in the nation, this little tidbit seems to have passed by with little notice.
Department of Agriculture employees have been instructed to praise, with a straight face mind you, Bush's handling of the Iraq war. They even instructed to keep a record of how they've complied with the order, so the department can report back to the White House on how successful they've been.
I know this is number 54,627 on the list of outrages committed by Bushco just this year, but it's still worth taking a look at how truly shameless they are.
-Maus
"The USDA on Iraq: Everything's Coming Up Rosy
By Al Kamen
Monday, May 8, 2006
Career appointees at the Department of Agriculture were stunned last week to receive e-mailed instructions that include Bush administration "talking points" -- saying things such as "President Bush has a clear strategy for victory in Iraq" -- in every speech they give for the department.
"The President has requested that all members of his cabinet and sub-cabinet incorporate message points on the Global War on Terror into speeches, including specific examples of what each agency is doing to aid the reconstruction of Iraq," the May 2 e-mail from USDA speechwriter Heather Vaughn began..."
Read the rest at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/07/AR2006050700898.html