AdWeek: Senate ONDCP Bill Seeks to Bar Ogilvy
The Administration's love affair with WPP properties, like Ogilvy and J. Walter Thompson, seems to be coming to an end. Key officials recruited to the Administration after the beginning of the "war on terror" have been quietly allowed to leave, and the Senate is forcing the Executive to use a different agency to run its anti-drug efforts, after hearing about billing abuses and research proving the work ineffective.
The Senate is even considering barring Ogilvy from the White House's Partnership for Drug-Free America account, which might be considered a "bill of attainder." The Senate very rarely tailors such measures against one individual or company - for instance, it dropped such efforts against Bill Clinton's pension benefits - because such singling out is generally considered unconstitutional.
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