The Pentagon has now made public all the documents it turned over to the New York Times for the paper’s blockbuster story a few weeks ago on the cozy relationship between the Pentagon and the ostensibly independent military analysts retained by the networks and cable news channels to provide on-air expertise.
Among the documents were audio files of some of the regular meetings between the analysts and then-Secretary of Defense Don Rumsfeld, where egos were massaged and favor curried. We’ve pulled some of the highlights from those tapes and have then posted at TPMmuckraker.
Meanwhile, as the Politico reports, there has been deafening silence from the networks about their complicity in Rummy’s domestic psy-ops campaign.
