After the lengthy investigative report printed last week in the NY Times cluing Americans into the Bush Administration’s psyops to keep the Iraq war in favor, the Pentagon has decided to “suspend” briefings to retired shills working for lobbyists and defense contractors.
The Pentagon announced on Friday that it was suspending its briefings for retired military officers who often appear as military analysts on television and radio programs.
A spokesman for the Pentagon said the briefings and all other interactions with the military analysts had been suspended indefinitely pending an internal review.
Does that mean this administration’s psyops against us will not continue? Highly doubtful. I’m sure the war-hawks will find a way around this. Will the TV News, that betrayed their status as the Fourth Estate and became a mouthpiece for the Bush Administration change it’s ways? Representative Rosa L. DeLauro is trying to find out.
A third member of Congress, Representative Rosa L. DeLauro, Democrat of Connecticut, wrote to the heads of the five major television networks this week asking each to provide more information on procedures for vetting and hiring military analysts.
“When you put analysts on the air without fully disclosing their business interests, as well as relationships with high-level officials within the government, the public trust is betrayed,” Ms. DeLauro wrote.
It will be interesting to see what sort of response Rep. DeLauro gets from her letters.
