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NY Times Re****t: Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon’s Hidden Hand
In the summer of 2005, the Bush administration confronted a fresh wave
of criticism over Guantánamo Bay. The detention center had just been
branded “the gulag of our times” by Amnesty International, there were
new allegations of abuse from United Nations human rights experts and
calls were mounting for its closure.
The administration’s communications experts responded swiftly. Early
one Friday morning, they put a group of retired military officers on one
of the jets normally used by Vice President Dick Cheney and flew them to
Cuba for a carefully orchestrated tour of Guantánamo.
To the public, these men are members of a familiar fraternity, presented
tens of thousands of times on television and radio as “military
analysts” whose long service has equipped them to give authoritative and
unfettered judgments about the most pressing issues of the post-Sept. 11
world.
Hidden behind that appearance of objectivity, though, is a Pentagon
information apparatus that has used those analysts in a campaign to
generate favorable news coverage of the administration’s wartime
performance, an examination by The New York Times has found.
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