Can you say sketchy

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/15/politics/15VIDE.html

Question: Was the Bush administration's use of taxpayer money to propagandize a bill that was bogus to begin with by hiring the production company "Home Front Communications (really, could anyone make this up?)," to sell said bill as "a very good idea"
a) Illegal
b) unethical
c) business as usual
d) all of the above