...hmm...velly interestin a'int it

White House Says It Won't Pressure Social Security Workers
Mon Jan 17, 2005 11:21 AM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior White House official said on Sunday that career employees at the Social Security Administration would not be asked to promote President Bush's plan to create private investment accounts.

"The Social Security Administration is an independent organization that has a duty to fulfill the obligations of making sure that checks go out and ... the solvency of the actual system itself," Dan Bartlett, a top aide to Bush, told NBC's "Meet the Press."

Responding to a report in The New York Times that the agency would publicize Social Security's financial problems and promote private accounts, Bartlett said: "There's no expectation that career employees would be asked to advocate on behalf of any specific prescription for Social Security."

Note: Unfortunately the SSA has already been doing just as reported in the Times article. Bartlett failed to respond to questions about whether or not the the SSA directive referenced in the report was accurate.