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Military Analysts Used to Dupe American Public

nytimes.com — The Pentagon has cultivated “military analysts” in a campaign to generate favorable news coverage of the Bush administration’s wartime performance.

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  • carpetbomberz, on 04/21/2008, -0/+8The DoD has waged a secret intelligence operation against the U.S. public and nobody seems to care. Worse yet the former military guys who did all the shilling for Don Rumsfeld don't feel the least bit guilty. Tori Clarke deserves to tried for Treason against the United States.
  • DiggedyDoo, on 04/21/2008, -0/+63 words: military industrial complex
  • brjohnson789, on 04/21/2008, -0/+4This war was and continues to be extremely costly to the average US citizen, mostly out of pocket, but in some cases they are affected personally if they have family/ friends over there. What scares me is that NOTHING will be done about revelations like these. Obama says he 'may' look into stuff like this if he's elected, but you show me a president that investigated crimes of former high ranking officials from prior terms, and I'll eat my hat.
    • CryRightardCry, on 04/22/2008, -1/+1And let's face it, even if they WERE investigated the Republicans would do anything they could to derail, delay, or destroy it.
  • duggtodeath, on 04/21/2008, -0/+1It's like some ***** infomercial with satisfied "customers" giving glowing testimony. Just set it and forget it!
  • DanDC, on 04/22/2008, -0/+2Did the networks who hired these patsies forget everything they learned in Journalism 101? What a huge lapse from everyone involved! Not surprising, but some of the details of this are revolting.
    • InfernalMachine, on 04/22/2008, -0/+1I think you mean ECON 101 and ACCT 101.
      There's a whole other article that needs to written about the behavior of the networks. I mean, they're claiming that they knew neither their analysts' connection with the Pentagon and White House, nor the fact that were lobbyists or employees or owners of military companies that were actively seeking business with the Pentagon, and who could only stand to gain financially if the war was declared and the huge budgets required passed. While the former is possible, I don't see how the latter is possible. They must have known the other occupations of their analysts, and the huge potential conflict of interest involved. Also, they did not feel it incumbent upon themselves to reveal such details to the viewer. You think you're listening to a retired colonel, but you're actually listening to someone trying to sell goods or services to the Pentagon. It's crazy.

      It's disgusting, but at least it's out in the open now. This is no longer a conspiracy theory, but a conspiracy proof.
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