GAO says Pentagon didn't break rules on propaganda

The Pentagon did not violate a federal prohibition on propaganda by using retired military officers to tout the Bush administration's war policies in the media, congressional investigators said Tuesday.

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TO paraphrase Al Pacino in "Godfather III," just when we thought we were out, the Bush mob keeps pulling us back in. And will keep doing so. No matter how hard President Obama tries to turn the page on the previous administration, he can't.

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Last April, the New York Times revealed that retired officers serving as military analysts on television news shows had regularly been briefed by the Pentagon and supplied with pro-war and pro-administration talking points.

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The House of Representatives moved Thursday to crack down on a Pentagon program that Democrats say planted false and overly optimistic news stories about the Iraq war, using military analysts who appeared regularly on television.

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*cough*

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As Josh says, we'd like any help we can get finding the revealing tidbits from the Pentagon's military analyst documents. The documents are here. Please provide a link to the pdf you are referring to, as well as the page number when you comment below.

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Correctly Political: Liquid Lunch with Donald Rumsfeld

On April 20, 2008, the New York Times published an expose, "Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon's Hidden Hand," by David Barstow, detailing the close--in many cases, close business--relationship with a group of retired military officers who have spent much of the last five years as su …

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I thought it was shameful that 10 days after David Barstow's NY Times article about how the establishment media colluded with the Pentagon to sell the war in Iraq and the "war on terror" to the American people by hiring the Pentagon's "message force multipliers" as military analy …

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In this interesting piece by the New York Times, military 'analysts' often interviewed on major news networks, are shown for what they are: tools of the establishment. Puppets for an imperialist policy that many themselves benefitted from financially.

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There is a new war taking place over the internet that can be likened to computer games such as Doom.

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