In testimony before the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Medicare [3] administrator Mark McClellan [4] "would not rule out using government-produced news releases to inform seniors about the new Medicare prescription drug benefit [5]," although they would not be a "main part" of a senior outreach program. In May 2004, the Government Accountability Office ruled [6] that video news releases [7] "touting the Medicare drug benefit" were covert propaganda [8], due to "the videos' failure to name Medicare as their source." McClellan dismissed the GAO findings, saying "the binding interpretation for him was a determination by Justice's Office of Legal Counsel that video news releases were legal so long as the information was accurate."