Two key figures on Capitol Hill want the Federal Communications Commission to investigate whether TV networks violated agency rules when they gave air time to a coordinated Defense Department media blitz that promoted retired military brass as supposedly impartial experts on the war in Iraq. "The American people should never be subject to a covert propaganda campaign but rather should be clearly notified of who is sponsoring what they are watching," wrote House Energy Committee Chair John Dingell (D-MI) and House Agriculture Subcommittee chair Rosa L. DeLauro (D-CT) in a letter to FCC Chair Kevin Martin on May 6th.

The Democrats called the DoD program "unethical and perhaps illegal." Sadly, they're right to include the word "perhaps" in that description. More