Buying of news by Bush's aides is ruled illegal

Meant to post this yesterday, dammit!

WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 - Federal auditors said on Friday that the Bush administration violated the law by buying favorable news coverage of President Bush's education policies, by making payments to the conservative commentator Armstrong Williams and by hiring a public relations company to analyze media perceptions of the Republican Party.

In a blistering report, the investigators, from the Government Accountability Office, said the administration had disseminated "covert propaganda" in the U.S., in violation of a statutory ban.
-- Robert Pears, NY Times. Full article here.

Oh, and if you have any lingering doubts who paid for it? Yup, you and me.

Now, do you think anything will be done about it?