FCC chairman finds no red flags in taxpayer-funded 'PSA' threatening to kill Americans who kill Americans.

…(cont) That war got its own ad this week. The Guardian reports it aired Wednesday night on Fox News, during a commercial break: audio of Trump's declaration of war and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's promise that "if you kill Americans ... we will kill you," laid over military footage including unclassified strike video. It joins a campaign the Senate's own leader has already put a name to — "PSA" ads, in quotation marks, because that is the label the government put on them first.

This week, too, the House Judiciary Committee's top Democrat, Jamie Raskin, filed with Rep. George Whitesides a pair of letters — one to the Government Accountability Office, one to the Office of Special Counsel — asking each to examine, respectively, where the money went and what it was used to say. Neither office owes a reply. Carr's finding is the reply that arrived anyway, from a desk neither letter was addressed to: the one that regulates the airwaves the ads ran on. The Hill's own reporting describes the ad he cleared as one that "casts the president in a positive light." Set that description next to his conclusion and the distance between them is the story.

The Guardian already puts the taxpayer bill in the millions, a running total that grows with every new spot and that remains, as a precise sum, harder to produce than the clearance that waved the latest one through. The ads keep airing. The letters keep going unanswered. The chairman keeps finding nothing wrong, which, all together now, is the finding.