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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 07:20 PM

Subpoena Broadcast Journalists While You're At It!

Ask them why they willingly and knowingly took part in this campaign to lie the nation into the Iraq War. They knew damn well that these plainclothes colonels were on the war wagon and here's the proof:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=AchezOZsFiU

In this video clip from 2003, Gore Vidal calls out CNN and the other networks for using these Pentagon henchmen to gin up the war. So they knew all along and did it anyway.

—Jelperman Read Jelperman's other letters

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