Pentagon Posts Documents on its "Military Analysts" Propaganda Program

In April, the New York Times broke a story about the now infamous Pentagon information apparatus that used retired military officers in a "campaign to generate favorable news coverage of the administration’s wartime performance" (Behind Military Analysts, the Pentagon's Hidden Hand By David Barstow, New York Times, April 20, 2008). The Times also published some of the documents it obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests on its web site (NY Times publishes some FOIA documents).

Now, the Pentagon has published documents it released. This collection appears more complete than what the NYT released.

  • Military Analysts "These documents were released to the New York Times regarding the Pentagon's Military Analyst program." (last updated 28-May-08)

The documents are posted on the web at the "Reading Room" of the Office of the Secretary of Defense and Joint Staff, Requester Service Center, Office of Freedom of Information, under the heading "5 U.S.C. § 552 (a)(2)(D) Records – Records released to the public, under the FOIA, that are or will likely become the subject of subsequent requests" under the heading "Military Analysts."

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Daily show on military analysts

I posted about this back in April and am glad you reposted Jim. I gives me a chance to remind folks about the FOIA collection at the Internet Archive, in which those DoD documents are safely preserved. And of course, The Daily Show described this best! "Message Force Multipliers?!" WTF????

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