According to the Public Accountability Initiative, Townsend has positions with two investment firms that deal with defense contractor money, and also serves as an advisor for the defense contractor Decision Sciences.
Again, is it really a surprise that, given her connections and work history, Ms. Townsend is on CNN saying that the US needs to use more military might against ISIS?
Basically, legalized mass-murder is being sold to us by a bunch of well-paid shills for te nation's multibillion-dollar defense contractors.
Unfortunately, as despicable as that may seem, it's been going on for some time.
As Lee Fang points out, back in 2008, The New York Times revealed a network of retired military generals on the payrolls of some of the nation's largest and most profitable defense contractors, who were backing the Bush administration's invasion of Iraq via television appearances.
As the current crisis involving ISIS continues to grow, the American people deserve to get unbiased and independent commentary on the situation, not commentary that's being directly funded by those who would make more money from more military conflict.
There are just too many conflicts of interest with the media today, and it's time for that to change.
When a network has pundits on to talk about ISIS, the military, or anything else, the network should disclose their conflict of interests and their sources of income.
If you're being bankrolled by a billion-dollar defense contractor, then the American people have a right to know that you may have mixed loyalties when it comes to promoting military conflict and action.
It's that simple.
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