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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 09:02 PM

    I see -- so it's legal for the gov't to lie to us --

    L.W.M. --

    It is legal for the gummint to lie to us.

    What is not legal is for the gummint to use our own tax dollars to ie to us using the "independent media" or "free press" as an undisclosed conduit for that propaganda or lies or whatever.

    So it is legal for the gov't to use our tax dollars to lie to us -- in order to, say, illegally invade and occupy a non-threatening sovereign nation -- using the "independent media" or the "free press" so long as it does it openly, without using propaganda [because propaganda isn't lying]?

    According to John Dean, it is a felony for the Executive to lie to Congress and We the people.

    —JNagarya Read JNagarya's other letters

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