GAO clears Forest Service (Federal PR campaign for logging plan)

[Snellius]

Critics had said the agency's PR campaign trumpeting its logging plan for the Sierra Nevada was illegal.

WASHINGTON - The Forest Service broke no laws when it spent $113,000 to help promote Sierra Nevada logging plans, federal auditors have concluded.

The disputed promotion campaign, highlighted by a brochure trumpeting the slogan "Forests with a Future," drew fire from environmentalists and Democratic lawmakers. But in a new report to Tracy Republican Rep. Richard Pombo, the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office says the public relations work passes legal muster.

"While the Forest Service policy is controversial," the GAO noted, "the materials explaining the policy do not constitute prohibited publicity or propaganda materials."
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The objective, Forest Service officials explained in one memo cited by the GAO, was to create "a favorable public atmosphere for the (Sierra Nevada plan) by presenting early and accurate messages, and quick and direct responses to those who oppose (it)." This was needed, the officials further explained in the same memo, because earlier a "generally negative, distrustful tone (had) been established in the media and by some persuasive stakeholders."

http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/environment/story/10737394p-11655840c.html

[TexasSissy]

1. Our tax dollars at work. This is the most corrupt government in our

history.

To paraphrase Bagala, "We need Bush to Bug Out."

[tom_paine]

2. There is no law for Imperial in Amerika

None.

They simply do what they will and dare anyone to stop them.

If they are not stopped, it becomes Imperial "Law" (but God help any Serf who thinks they aren't inferior to the Imperials and thus tries to get away with what the superior Imperials do as a matter of course)