Glenn,

OT via Raw Story - The Wired Blog (at http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/05/did-the-new-yor.html) has a piece up entitled: "Investigate the Pentagon Pundit Project - and the New York Times - Yourself, Online"

Of particular interest is the DoD link to this:

"The Defense Department has released thousands of pages of documents related to this outreach effort. Years' worth of internal Pentagon memos, military talking points and interview tapes and transcripts with former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld are all now posted to the Pentagon's website."

The DoD link is http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/milanalysts/

OT - More on DoD "Propagandists™ for Profit"

From the DoD link of http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/milanalysts/

Tons of stuff to look at and review. Such as "Tara Jones E-mails 200-699" (at http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/milanalysts/16%20Jan%2008/Tara%20Jones%20E-mails%20200-699.pdf ) where she says on January 29, 2007:

...General Petreaus has requested a roundtable meeting with the retired military analysts on Wednesday, January 31...

And here is her "list of invitees":

Retired Miliary Analysts

Colonel Ken Allard (USA, Retired) MSNBC

Mr. Jed Babbin (AF, Former JAG) American Spectator, Real Clear Politics

Admiral Dennis C. Blair (USN, Retired)

Commander Peter Brookes (USN, Reserve) Heritage Foundation

Lieutenant General Frank B. Campbell (USAF, Retired)

Dr. James Jay Carafano (LTC, USA, Retired) Heritage Foundation

Lieutenant Colonel Gordon Cucullu (USA, Retired) Fox News

Lieutenant General Michael P. DeLong (USMC, Retired) Fox News

General Wayne A. Downing (USA, Retired) MSNBC

Lieutenant Colonel Tim J. Eads (USA, Retired) Fox News

General Ronald Fogleman (USAF, Retired)

Lieutenant Colonel John Garrett (USMC, Retired) Fox News

Lieutenant General Buster Glosson (USAF, Retired)

Brigadier General David L. Grange (USA, Retired) CNN

Command Sergeant Major Steven Greer (USA, Retired) Fox News

Major General Timothy M. Haake (USAR, Retired)

Admiral Thomas B. Hayward (USN, Retired) - Former Chief of Naval Operations

Colonel Jack Jacobs (USA, Retired) MSNBC

Admiral David E. Jeremiah (USN, Retired)

General Jack Keane (USA, Retired) ABC

General William F. "Buck" Kernan (USA, Retired) Lehrer Newshour

Colonel Glenn Lackey (USA, Retired)

Admiral Thomas Joseph Lopez (USN, Retired)

Lieutenant Colonel Robert L. Maginnis (USA, Retired) Fox News, CNN, BBC, Radio

Major General James "Spider" Marks (USA, Retired) CNN

Dr. Jeff McCausland (Colonel, USA, Retired) CBS (mostly radio)

Lieutenant General Thomas McInerney (USAF, Retired) Fox News

Major Andy Messing Jr. (USAR, Retired) Fox News

Major General Burton R. Moore (USAF, Retired)

General Thomas S. Moorman, Jr. (USAF, Retired)

Major General Michael J. Nardotti, Jr. (USA, Retired)

Captain Chuck Nash (USN, Retired) Fox News

General William L. Nash (USA, Retired) Council on Foreign Relations

General Glenn K. Otis (USA, Retired)

General Joseph Ralston (USAF, Retired)

Lieutenant General Erv Rokke (USAF, Retired)

Major General Robert H. Scales, Jr. (USA, Retired) Fox News

General H. Hugh Shelton (USA, Retired)

Major General Donald W. Shepperd (USAF, Retired) CNN

Lieutenant Colonel Carlton Sherwood (USMC, Retired)

Mr. Wayne Simmons (USN, Retired) Fox News

Major General Perry Smith (USAF, Retired)

Captain Martin L. Strong (USN, Retired)

Captain Robert R. Timberg (USMC, Retired) Us Naval Institute

Major General Paul E. Vallely (USA, Retired) Fox News

Colonel John Warden (USAF, Retired)

General Larry D. Welch (USAF, Retired)

Mr. Bing West (USMC, Retired) Atlantic Monthly, Freelance Writer

General Charles E. Wilhelm (USMC, Retired)

General Tom Wilkerson (USMC, Retired) US Naval Institute

(My Bold)

Note the prevalence of Fox News as the "official propaganda outlet of the Repug Party."

...necessity and for the protection of the people against monarchical tendencies have the least amount of power. The Executive Branch must have the least amount of power because it is the rule of one person, fraught as it is with all such related dangers as has been seen for centuries in past monarchies. It is the tendency of a monarchy to aquire endless power unto itself. Therein lies the danger of all monarchies and monarchical thinkers. This can also be seen with some religions who imbue all powers in a single person. The Executive Branch is by far the most potentially dangerous and under the Bush family and the Republican Party this has proven to be a fact and a fatal flaw.

From this day, henceforth and forever forward let the rest of us never let them, the Repubs, ever forget that fact. Let us constantly throw it into their faces at even the slightest hint of monarchical behavior or thought. It seems to me that the Repubs are the embodiment of the British Monarchy in the USA. The WASPs are alive and well and living right here in the USA. They are all over the southern states and to a lesser degree, elsewhere. Yoo, Gonzales and Bybee are perfect examples of monarchical thinkers, WASPs or not.

This authoritarian mindset is everywhere among all of the Rethugs. It permeates them like a foul stench and left unchecked will end our democracy (ok for the screamers our Federal Republic, don't have a heart attack). And before you folks have another heart attack the next president must ask the American people exactly what they want and given sufficient numbers of assenters must change our Constitution to reflect that we are a democracy. Of course the Rethugs will fight this to the death of our democratic federal republic, being the rampant hypocrites that they are.

The Legislative Branch wherein powers are disbursed among many people is the safest branch of government by virtue of the dispersion of power among the many representatives of 'we the people'. And in the Congress the House of Representatives being the largest and therefore the more dispersed of powers is the safest branch, with the Senate being second. And it is not a close second at that. The Senate is only necessary so that the smaller states are protected.

It is always amaxzing to me that the Republican Party which is always claiming to be the Conservative Party and therein espousing the principles of less government and less intrusive government has been totally committed to bigger government and very intrusive government and government of the very few/ government of the one, George W. Bush.

It seems that only when a Dem is in the presidency that the Republicans want less government. When they arethe ruling power they alwaysexpand the powers of the unitary executive. In other words they are nothing more than rampant hypocrites and the rest of us are just not supposed to notice their hypocrisy. Even as glaring as it is and has been beginning with St. Reagan.