Reply #21: GAO ruled HHS medicare commercials illegal (VNR fake news) [View All]

[RainDog]

this is a pdf from the GAO about the ruling made against the govt. for not identifying propaganda as such for tv ads to promote their program. This is illegal. This is one of AfterDowningStreet's listed offences for impeachment.

DIGEST

1. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’s (CMS) use of appropriated funds to pay for the production and distribution of story packages that were not attributed to CMS violated the restriction on using appropriated funds for publicity or propaganda purposes in the Consolidated Appropriations Resolution of 2003, Pub. L. No. 108-7, Div. J, Tit. VI, § 626, 117 Stat. 11, 470 (2003).
2. CMS, in using appropriations in violation of the publicity or propaganda prohibition, incurred obligations in excess of appropriations available for that purpose. See B-300325, Dec. 13, 2002. Accordingly, CMS violated the Antideficiency Act, 31 U.S.C. § 1341, and must report the violation to the Congress and President in accordance with 31 U.S.C. § 1351 and Office of Management and Budget Circular No. A-11.

So who produced those commercials for the govt?

oh, and this is another HHS odd moment...very odd. aluminium beanie odd. surely old news around here, but here's a reminder-

Jerome Hauer, via Winter Patriot, hired John O'Neil, he got a contract for west nile just before it happened, he broke the law by only waiting one month to go to work for the company that got a contract for an anthrax vaccine, one of his underlings at one time was Steven Hatfield, Hauer was in charge of the never-really-did-crap anthrax investigation that made it possible for Bush to ram the Patriot Act, many parts unread, through Congress. Interesting guy.

He was the person who had everyone start taking Cipro, and he was managing director of the security company for the Twin Towers (the one with Bushbot brother on board too...the one with the shut down security systems prior to the week of 9-11.)

He went to work for Emergent and the company shut out a competitor (VaxGen) for the vacc. production -- ONE MONTH after he left the govt. (this is illegal.) He then went to work for Fleishman Hillard, the opened his own company and Fleishman Hillard got cut out of the deal.

I'm not a conspiracy theorist. I don't know for sure what happened. However, if I were a police detective investigating a crime, I would certainly wonder about those who benefited and then controlled the flow of information after that crime. But of course, a police detective would note it was simply coincidence and look for others who, although connected to these same people in the past, were responsible and not those who profited like pigs.

Hauer's work with Kroll is another issue.