Should US government hire Putin's propagandists?

Should the United States government continue to do business with a public relations firm that takes millions of dollars to flack for the Kremlin?

Ketchum, Inc., a global PR company, took $15 million from the Putin regime to orchestrate the July, 2006 "Group of Eight" meeting in St. Petersburg, Russia, Kommersant reported earlier this year.

CBS and the Christian Science Monitor report that the Ketchum operation was part of what they call "Soviet-style propaganda." They also report that Ketchum has been a US government contractor - for civilian agencies and for the US Army.

People are now starting to wonder why the USA would ever want to buy the services of paid propagandists for a KGB colonel and his gangster regime.