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Clearly the media has again been used by disgruntled or jealous insiders and gave their prescribed pavlovian response by jumping on this well-timed indictment near the end of the administration to cast dispersion on this program and it's participants. Any IG inspection full of words such as "appears" and other broad generalities should be scrutinized more closely before being promptly binned. Further, motives are clear that by publishing the corporate sponsors highlighted by name in the IG complaint served only to further embarrass the program. Look very closely at the IG report, look at the timelines...if this program (as it is accused) were off the rails two or three years ago, where were the watchdogs then? Sleeping? We don't think so. It's clear from the report and the emails that this is a witch hunt. As the first full paragraph of Farsetta's story illustratres (as an accusation) Barber indeed asked DoD Legals if she could ask for sponsorship of items....to which in some cases they replied 'no' - yet the report makes it appear that her asking the very question was somehow wrong...when in fairness was her job to ask these questions. It's clear she was indeed inquiring to those in the 'system' who were deemed the authority - by the system....and this has been used cheaply against the ASY program. While most projects can be Monday-morning'd into perpetuity, my analysis of this particular story holds several truths: People and corporations are being slandered to harm the project participants and the sponsors (with the cheap addition of the inference of scams, preferential treatment, and so forth) while no (0) reference to the outcomes of the program are given - at all. I think good citizens should expect more from "the Center for Media and Democracy" - and your first lesson before writing another story, Ms. Farsetta, should be watching "Absence of Malice" - and in fairness you should think deeply about where your lead into this story, and your one-sided zeal, originated. Surely the waxy-faced IG guys did not inspire you to slant this to one side. -JF