Saturday, November 05, 2005

Another Day... (part two)

...another crooked Republican administration official; via Media Citizen:
Kenneth Tomlinson -- the target of internal investigations within the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the State Department -- was in regular communication with White House political advisor Karl Rove according to evidence contained within a sealed Inspector General report.

On Thursday, a disgraced Tomlinson was shown the door at the CPB two days after their IG issued a report detailing Tomlinson's efforts to impose a partisan agenda on PBS and other publicly funded programming.

He’s now under a spotlight at the State Department, related to allegations that he spent federal money for personal purposes, used board money for corporation activities, used board employees to do corporation work and hired ghost employees or improperly qualified employees.
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This traffic is indeed a part of the IG report, according to a MediaCitizen source close to the CPB. But Tomlinson’s newest troubles raise more questions than they answer. Central to both his CPB and BBG maneuvering is the issue of authority: Were Tomlinson’s efforts to spin media in favor of the White House directed from within that same building? And if they were, shouldn’t investigators start sniffing around the West Wing?


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