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Saturday, May 10, 2008 12:00 AM

How the military analyst program controlled news coverage: in the Pentagon's own words

"We develop a core group from within our media analyst list of those that we can count on to carry our water. They become the key go to guys for the networks and it begins to weed out the less reliably friendly analysts by the networks themselves."

Glenn Greenwald

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Sunday, May 11, 2008 07:51 PM

A kindred spirit --

"@ retired military patriot

"I used to feel like saluting when I read Karen Kwiatkowski. I thought she was marvellous, really, when she came out with the original "In Rumsfeld's Shop" essays, and for a while thereafter. I think by now she has become a bit of a fixture in a libertarian small publishing niche, and her writing has lost its freshness, but that doesn't negate my admiration for her early stuff, at all.

"-- Rowan Berkeley Sunday, May 11, 2008 01:57 PM"

I used to exchange emails with her. Until as you note, she became a closed-minded ideologue. A constant among "Libertarians": they are experts in philosophy without (1) having studied philosophy, and while (2) rejecting philosophy.

But she did much good in being the first to break open the Pentagon as it was under Rumsfeld.

—JNagarya Read JNagarya's other letters

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