In the LA Times, Mark Mazzetti reports that the secret military program which paid Iraqi newspapers to publish pro-US stories may have violated a Pentagon directive signed by Donald Rumsfeld in 2003. Excerpt from the text of that directive:
Psy-op is restricted by both DoD [Department of Defense] policy and executive order from targeting American audiences, our military personnel and news agencies or outlets.
Link to LAT story (via Romenesko), and here are PDF copies of related Defense Department documents from the National Security Archive, including the Information Operations Roadmap directive (2.4MB PDF Link) to which this report refers.
