"FCC Chairman Abused Power, House Probe Finds"

FCC Chairman Kevin J. Martin.
(By Joshua Roberts -- Bloomberg News)

According to this article in The Washington Post, Congressional Democrats have called the FCC "a dysfunctional agency led by a chairman who manipulated and withheld data and reports to advance his own policy positions."

The Democratic lawmakers made their accusations in a 110-page report released by the House Energy and Commerce Committee's oversight and investigations subcommittee after a year-long investigation into the management and regulatory practices of FCC Chairman Kevin J. Martin.

Comment: There have been reports about Mr. Martin's chairmanship, but this seems to be a serious critique of the performance of one of the more important appointees of the Bush administration, and still another black mark against that administration. JAD