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"Spreading the message across," old school style
The cabal just keeps getting bigger and bigger.
The New York Times reports
Early one Friday morning, they put a group of retired military officers on one of the jets normally used by Vice President Dick Cheney and flew them to Cuba for a carefully orchestrated tour of Guantánamo.
To the public, these men are members of a familiar fraternity,
presented tens of thousands of times on television and radio as
“military analysts” whose long service has equipped them to give
authoritative and unfettered judgments about the most pressing issues
of the post-Sept. 11 world.Hidden behind that appearance of
objectivity, though, is a Pentagon information apparatus that has used
those analysts in a campaign to generate favorable news coverage of the
administration’s wartime performance, an examination by The New York
Times has found.The effort, which began with the buildup to the Iraq war and continues to this day, has sought to exploit ideological and
military allegiances, and also a powerful financial dynamic: Most of
the analysts have ties to military contractors vested in the very war
policies they are asked to assess on air.
Full report here
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