It is also looking to fund ways in which it can mobilize media reform activists in numerous countries in an effort to lobby for new laws and legal actions, most of it targeted at News Corp.

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But some Pentagon officials portrayed the evaluation as a dramatic effort by the Army to highlight long-standing concerns and lobby for more money.

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Another part of that effort is the K Street Project, named for the Washington street where lobby firms tend to settle, between the Capitol and the White House.

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