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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 01:06 PM

    Correcting an ommission --

    What worries me is that the dissent was NOT UNIVERSAL in the military. Our is to be "a system of laws, and not/b> of men [choosing to be disloyal to the Constitution, or choosing to be conveniently blind or indecisive]."

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