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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."

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  • Sunday, May 11, 2008 12:16 PM

    So: the rabid anti-"Communists" who gibber about "freedom" -- when not attacking

    "Communists" and everyone else's patriotism, turn out to be exactly the same as the "Communists" they pillory. Gov't-controlled media spewing only pro-gov't propaganda, everything else being suppressed or ignored.

    Power matters; truth not at all. Rule of law? that's for suckers and wimps.

    Anti-Americans who swore an oath to protect and defend the United States against ". . . enemies, both foreign and domestic . . ." yet violate that oath by not protecting the United States against enemies either foreign, or themselves.

    It is not that We the people are uninformed, asleep, or "don't care"; it is that we must push back even harder on Congress to rejoin the United States, within the confines of the Constitution, instead of tolerating the domestic enemies of the United States as if the latter are a legitimate political movement and party with whom to negotiate the United States' policies and actions, especially as concerns surviving against the deliberated and deliberate assaults on the country by said domestic enemies.

    Don't ever forget that this began with the SC 5 usurping the exclusive authority of Congress to resolve election disputes in order to make of George Bush, the loser of the election, an unelected political appointee as a knowing and enthusiastically willing collaborator in the well-financed lunatic fringe's drive to destroy the US by transforming it into an openly-declared dictatorship -- as example: "I approved the meetings of the National Security Council's 'Principals' committee in which the war crime of torture was planned, down to the finest of details" -- Unelected Political Appointee George Bush.

    Or as in: "Yes, I criminally violated FISA by authorizing the impeachable offense of warrentless wiretapping of US citizens, and I'm going to continue to do so, and I have the transparently bogus legal opinions from corrupt anti-American lawyers I appointed to justify it by those transparently bogus means, exactly as they did on my orders to give the transparently fraudulent appearance of legality to the war crime of torture."

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