Administration to put more "spin" on Iraq news

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Apparently the administration isn't happy about the truth on Iraq and the problems surfacing with the country's control, reconstruction and level of insurgent attacks. The solution? No, silly, it's not get Iraq under control. It's a new PR campaign! It's for the Pentagon and the U.S. Agency for International Development to begin censoring more negative news stories from getting to the U.S., and paying Iraqi spokespeople to give warm-and-fuzzy press conferences at US bases in order "to improve Americans' opinions about the Iraq conflict"

This sounds like a job for the Iraqi Minister of Information. I bet the Bush administration is probably sorry they killed him now.

USAID said this week that it will restrict distribution of reports by contractor Kroll Security International showing that the number of daily attacks by insurgents in Iraq has increased. On Monday, a day after The Washington Post published a front-page story saying that "the Kroll reports suggest a broad and intensifying campaign of insurgent violence," a USAID official sent an e-mail to congressional aides stating: "This is the last Kroll report to come in. After the WPost story, they shut it down in order to regroup. I'll let you know when it restarts."


 

 

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