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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 09:31 PM

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    Again: there is no such thing as a "victimless" crime -- or for that matter a "victimless" good.

    -- JNagarya

    I will agree with this in the sense that I accept the Chaos Theory meme of a butterfly flapping it's wings in South America may cause a storm in Iowa but should we invoke the criminal sanction against the butterfy to prevent Iowans from suffering harm? This is a case of carrying something to ridiculous extremes. It's ideology run amok.

    If we make looking at naked pictures of your wife a crime, we have just created another "victimless crime" that you say does not exisr. Give me the power to legislate by decree and I can turn the whole world into criminals.

    —L.W.M. Read L.W.M.'s other letters

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