states "A key senior figure in a Bush administration covert Pentagon program, which used retired military analysts to produce positive wartime news coverage, remains in the same position today as a chief Obama Defense Department spokesman and the agency's head of all media operations.
In an examination of Pentagon documents the New York Times obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request " which reporter David Barstow leveraged for his April 2008 Pulitzer Prize-winning exposà on the program " Raw Story has found that Bryan Whitman surfaces in over 500 emails and transcripts, revealing the deputy assistant secretary of defense for media operations was both one of the program's senior participants and an active member.
The GOP considers the US populace as being a likely audience for the propaganda as the article continues "Barstow's Times expose revealed a comprehensive, covert Pentagon campaign " beginning during the lead-up to the Iraq War and continuing through 2008 " that shaped network military analysts into what internal documents referred to as "message force multipliers and "surrogates who could be trusted to parrot Bush administration talking points "in the form of their own opinions.
Now McChrystal is challenging Obama's view on Afghanistan. Do you think this Whitman brainwasher will help McChrystal for GOP advantage?
The article continues "But as Barstow noted in his report, in running the program out of that office rather than from the agency's regular press office, "the decision recalled other Bush administration tactics that subverted traditional journalism.
How does it feel to realize that 43 brainwashed the populace of his country?
The article continues "Records reveal Bryan Whitman as an ever-present force in the retired military analyst program, whether utilizing the analysts to push back against negative news coverage on insufficient body armor for soldiers, the abuse of detainees, setbacks in Iraq, and other incidents and war policies.
Different war, 43 is gone and 44 takes his place, but Whitman keeps up his misinformation. Maybe Obama's team should have told him to go sit in an office with no role other than collect his pay check until he retires.
They even tried to get Whitman to help them regarding DoD's response to Katrina. We'll be seeing a steady stream of retired Generals running down Obama on FOX and that topic will dominate Clear Channel Radio. The GOP doesn't need any advantages in this endeavor, but Obama's team's laxness allowed a propagandist to remain shading DoD events to the GOP's advantage.
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