State Department official: Internet freedom work won't be rushed

The Internet freedom work at the State Department uses taxpayer dollars to combat the stranglehold many foreign leaders have over Internet use in their countries and the Obama Administration apparently considered rushing these funds out the door to save them from budget cuts. "We certainly all feel the climate of austerity. There has been pressure to just push money out the door and just spend the money, but what we've decided to do — and what we owe the taxpayer — is to make it a strategic process," a State Department official said.