Rep. Louise Slaughter, D, NY-28, wants to know more (emphasis mine):We recognize that a comprehensive survey of federal departments and agencies may be a large undertaking. We ask that you focus your initial attention on covert propaganda related to the following seven topics:

The No Child Left Behind Act and its implementation;
The Medicare Modernization Act and its implementation;
Tax legislation signed or proposed by President Bush;
Social Security reform;
The war in Iraq;
Homeland security;
Energy and the environment,

We are available to work with you to refine this request as you proceed with the investigative work.

About half of my immediate and extended family lives in Slaughter's district, and I myself was born there, so this makes me proud. She asks a question that is so obvious and so important that I'm a little jealous I did not think of it first: what "opinion leaders" are the Bush administration paying to promote the destruction of Social Security? What "opinion leaders" did the administration pay to promote the invasion of Iraq? As much as the Medicare and education legislation formed centerpieces of Bush's agenda to date, Iraq and Social Security destruction remain his most ambitious targets. Surely, if the administration was willing to engage in covert propaganda to promote the first two, (as well as their drug policy), they are also were willing to engage in covert propaganda in order to achieve the second two. We need to expose Iraq payola in order to expose the truth about the run-up to war. We need to expose Social Security payola before the program is destroyed.