Pentagon plants "surrogates" in US TV, Jessica Loudis
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Thu, 04/24/2008 - 14:12

Pentagon plants "surrogates" in US TV, Jessica Loudis

Pentagon wages war on American public

Following the publication of an eleven-page New York Times exposé, the Pentagon has been revealed as having intimate ties with over 150 TV military analysts, shaping their opinions of sensitive military issues through confidential briefings and trips, and in many cases, using them strategically as government mouthpieces. After successfully suing the Department of Defense for over 8,000 pages of emails, transcripts and messages detailing Pentagon operations from Iraq to Guantánamo Bay, the Times has uncovered a vast media campaign aimed at promoting U.S. foreign policy through these high profile military analysts, or what the C.I.A. nicknamed ‘key influentials.' According to the Times: "Internal Pentagon documents repeatedly refer to the military analysts as "message force multipliers" or "surrogates" who could be counted on to deliver administration "themes and messages" to millions of Americans ‘in the form of their own opinions.'"  Read the rest of this post...

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