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-Caveat Lector- -- To subscribe to or unsubscribe from this list of deep inside information (avg. one email every other day), send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "subscribe deep" or "unsubscribe deep" in the subject line --Dear deep insider friends,Wanttoknow.info received an email last week from Dan Forbes, an excellent journalist who has appeared in many key publications. As the information he shared in this email was most informative and interesting, I'm passing it on to you. Have a great day!With best wishes,FredDear Folks:
Just encountered your site. Any link, dissemination, discussion is much appreciated.
First, a bit on myself, just FYI: I've testified before both the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives at two of the four congressional hearings which my award-winning journalism directly caused. And I've published in Slate, MSNBC, Salon, The Village Voice, Rolling Stone, Reason, The Nation.com, TomPaine.com, Newsday, Alternet, Wired News, New York Press and The Progressive Review. Though I'm a freelancer, I ended up - as much to my surprise as anyone's - appearing on ABC, FOX, CNN, the BBC and NPR, and actually helping to curtail a covert, federal propaganda program.
This followed my disclosure in Salon that the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) provided hundreds of thousands of dollars of financial incentives per episode to the TV networks for government-dictated anti-drug scripts. The networks' total haul was over $22 million. I quoted named consultants on the ONDCP payroll who promulgated specific changes in specific shows at the government's behest. My disclosures prompted more than 100 articles and broadcasts, including next-day, front-page coverage nationwide, and editorials condemning the practice I outlined.
Here's the initial few paragraphs and URLs to the two national scoops I hope you can feature on your site.
THE FIRST ONE proves that the Dept. of Homeland Security delayed launching $226 million in advertising (2003's total) until a month before bombs fell on Baghdad. Shrouded in a public health message, the campaign was four times bigger than its largest non-government, non-state security competitor for donated time and space. It featured Tom Ridge instructing the public that every family in the land is at risk of attack, and that every American needs to be engaged in supporting the coming war on terrorism. Though Americans were at risk throughout 2002 and needed to hear the portion of the campaign that instructed them what to do -- that is, the standard public health doctrine -- the ads only appeared 17 months after 9/11, just before the Iraq invasion.
This first article can be found at: http://www.antiwar.com/forbes/?articleid=2679$226 Million in Govt Ads Helped Pave the Way for War
by Daniel Forbes
"To ultimately be the victor in the war against terrorism, we need all Americans to be engaged."� DHS Secretary, Tom Ridge
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge found this exhortation so fine, he used it in two of the radio and television ads that American broadcasters donated in 2003 to DHS for its ostensible terrorism preparedness campaign. Curiously, though the threat to America had been manifest for some 17 months, the government didn't launch its social marketing campaign until February 2003, less than a month before bombs started falling on Baghdad.
Whether tardy or oh so timely, at $226 million last year, this bellicose DHS campaign received more than twice as much donated time and space as the largest nonprofit ad campaign the year before.
Bellicose? Wasn't this the "Ready" campaign much beloved by Leno and Letterman for pushing duct tape on a scornful public? Yet, consider another line that Ridge liked so much he repeated it in two of the ads: "Terrorism forces us to make a choice: We can be afraid, or we can be ready." One short ad featuring this statement from Ridge included little else. Stock up on water and batteries sure. But don't just stand there quivering in fear, somebody do something � something preemptive.
Ridge also informed us that, "Every family in America should prepare itself for terrorist attack." If indeed every family is vulnerable � and if Saddam was linked to the terrorists, as the administration maintained � then surely our government must do something proactive, something involving jets and tanks. Well wait a scant month America, for as Bush's designated terror czar promised: "We're asking America to be ready � and we will be ready."
Be ready, for time was short. Though the ads were planned as far back as at least May 2002 � and they employed simple public health maxims of long-standing � there was no perceived need to rush them out despite every reason to fear another attack throughout 2002. Instead, under the overall direction of Bush cabinet official Tom Ridge, the ads were always scheduled for early 2003, as was, apparently, the start of the war on Iraq.
Two private entities and an agency George W. Bush created in the Executive Office of the President joined forces creating the campaign. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation contributed both advice and between $3 and $4 million to the effort. The Ad Council helped shepherd it on to the nations' airwaves, as it's done for nonprofit advertising campaigns since WWII. And, with President Bush signing the DHS enabling legislation in November 2002, its predecessor agency, created by executive order, was the Office of Homeland Security.
Sloan's president, Ralph Gomory, said that OHS, Sloan and the Ad Council agreed to the effort in May 2002 and planned to hit the airwaves in January 2003. Regarding the actual launch in February, Gomory said, "We slipped by one month."
Given the broadcasters' huge donation, this information was obviously deemed important to the public's well-being. So why the many month delay? There was no perceived need to immediately push something on to the nation's airwaves, however rushed and therefore aesthetically less than pristine. No. Dilly and dally until the time was deemed right � some 17 months after 9/11.
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HERE'S THE SECOND ARTICLE:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig5/forbes1.htmlGAO Green-Lights White House Interference in Elections
by Daniel Forbes
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by Daniel Forbes
With two federal watchdog agencies freeing the White House drug czar to overtly influence state ballot initiatives, the Senate is poised to reauthorize this anti-democratic exercise for the next five years � the wheels greased by a ten-year total of $4 billion in taxpayer-funded advertising designed to sway the votes of those who pay for it.
The General Accounting Office recently declared the Bush administration's $22-million multimedia ad campaign touting new Medicare drug benefits to be marred by "omissions and other weaknesses" though not downright illegal. The GAO has also agreed to examine whether the administration's video news releases with fake reporters promoting the Medicare changes violate laws against government "covert propaganda."
But in the flap over what Democrats charge is the administration using public resources to heighten the president's appeal, a recent GAO ruling permitting outright electioneering by the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy has escaped notice.
The ONDCP reauthorization bill that has passed the House but stalled in the Senate is an opportunity to unravel a contradictory tangle. Congress needs to square the contradiction between ONDCP's statutory responsibility to advocate a partisan political view � that is, to oppose state drug reform initiatives � versus the prohibition on federal officials using public resources to influence the outcome of an election.
The need for congressional resolution is heightened since, echoing a prior ruling by the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, the GAO has granted the White House drug czar full license to try to influence the vote on state ballot initiatives, amendments and referenda. On March 10th, the GAO informed John P. Walters he can campaign at will under ONDCP's congressional mandate of "taking such actions as necessary to oppose any attempt to legalize" drugs.
Compared to Walters at least, Clinton drug czar Barry R. McCaffrey trod comparatively lightly as several western states passed medical marijuana initiatives. Despite fathering ONDCP's media campaign � now slated for a total value over ten years of some $4 billion � as a direct response to those initiatives, McCaffrey did seem to recognize some limit on his overt anti-initiative campaigning. As Walters himself told the Chicago Tribune last year, "I certainly understand the dangers of federal officials, a White House official, coming to a state and talking about a state ballot issue. We didn't use to do this."
But neither his predecessor's shred of reticence nor his own rhetorical appreciation of the limits on White House electioneering kept Walters from vowing to the Wall Street Journal, "We're going to fight whether we win or lose in every state they [reformers] come in to from now on."
By the GAO's lights, Walters can use tax dollars to loose whatever fictions he wishes upon the land since it saw no need "to examine the accuracy" of an ONDCP pre-election letter to prosecutors nationwide calling on them to oppose what the letter termed "campaigns to normalize and ultimately legalize the use of marijuana." In accompanying material, ONDCP made reference to "state initiatives" and the need for prosecutors to dispel the alleged myths that support their passage.
SNIP: For the rest of the article, go to: http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig5/forbes1.html
Many thanks for your time and consideration,
Daniel Forbes
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