Letters to the Editor

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 [2008-05-10]

• Military Unleashed

  I find myself being torn between being aghast at what moral and legal guidelines the U.S. military was willing to stomp over and being impressed at how well they were able to do it. All this does suggest a level of dedicated competence which we don't normally associate with the Pentagon.

  And they did it all for a cowardly "C Plus Augustus" (as Charles Pierce calls him). Would they ever have done this for a Kerry, Clinton, or Gore president? It is hard to imagine it even being possible. The ideological brotherhood of movement conservatives within the ranks of the myopic military and the profit-driven media seems to have been a necessary ingredient for this rancid loaf to rise.

  I never miss a GG column.

  -- DrEyeBall
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