Barry Mccaffrey

NBC News Fires Back Against Serious Allegations

Posted 02.29.2012

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NBC News released a statement on Wednesday firing back at a report that a controversial former general was secretly briefing the network on war with I...

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Controversial Former General Privately Briefing NBC News Execs On War With Iran

salon.com | Glenn Greenwald | Posted 04.29.2012

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Apparently, not only does NBC continue to present McCaffrey to its viewers as some sort of objective analyst, but NBC News executives use him as some...

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Shadow Elite: Eisenhower's Dark Vision Realized - The Military-Industrial Complex At 50

Janine R. Wedel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Defense Contractors, Military Industrial Complex, Defense Contracting, Barry McCaffrey, Politics News

While Eisenhower was certainly dead-on about the big picture of the military-industrial complex, we can imagine even he might be surprised by the dirty details of how that "complex" has evolved since his farewell speech in 1961.

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10 Shadow Elitists of the Decade

Linda Keenan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Crossroads GPS, Barry McCaffrey, Michael McConnell, Michael Chertoff, Robert Rubin, Tom Daschle, Karl Rove, Larry Summers, Gerhard Schroeder, Geir Haarde, Shadow Elite, Slidepollajax, Neoconservatives, Politics News

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Is Marijuana Addictive? Does It Matter?

Stanton Peele | Posted 05.25.2011

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As the effort by drug policy reform advocates to achieve their holy grail -- the legalization of a formerly illegal substance (marijuana) in a leading...

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Afghan Army: The Few, the Proud, the Unprepared

Jake Diliberto | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mathew Hoh, Iraq Surge, Heritage Foundation, Obama Afghanistan, War on Terror, Afghanistan Surge, Afghanistan, Jake Diliberto, Stephen Walt, War, President Obama, Taliban, 2011, Afghanistan Study Group, State Department, $3 Trillion Spending Plan, Vets for Rethinking Afghanistan, Foreign Policy, Afghan Army, Barry McCaffrey, Afghanistan War, General David Petreaus, Marines, Army, David Kilcullen, Pfcs, Stanley McChrystal, Robert Pape, Paul Pillar, US Army, Alqaeda, Slidepollajax, World News

Afghans cannot take control in 2011.

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Clinton, Bush And Obama Drug Czars Come Out Against California's Marijuana Legalization Measure

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011

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Six directors of the Office of National Drug Control Policy over the previous 3 administrations penned a cooperative op-ed Wednesday in opposition to ...

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War Propaganda: Soldiers Become Pawns For The Powerful

Jake Diliberto | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pentagon, US Soldiers, Reinhold Niebuhr, Time Magazine, Liberals, President Barack Obama, Donald Rumsfeld, Media, Pentagon Budget, Larry King LIve, Pentagon Propaganda, Imperial Presidency, Barry McCaffrey, Afghanistan War, Paul Wolfowitz, Iraq War, Laura Bush, American Soldiers, Iraq WMD, David Kilcullen, US Marines, Gen. David H. Petraeus, Katie Couric, Neoconservatives, Obama West Point Speech, Extraordinary Rendition, Coin, Counterinsurgency, Politics News

As a Patriotic American and a former Marine, I urge all of us to get realistic about this war. At the rate of 8 billion dollars a month, do Americans want to be in Afghanistan for the next 15 years?

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How We Won the War on Drugs, Repeatedly, and How to Win the Afghanistan War

Stanton Peele | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Barry McCaffrey, Felipe Calderon, Drug War, Druz Czar, War in Afghanistan, Thomas McLellan, Les Brown, Bill Bennett, Gil Kelikowske, John Walters, General David Petraeus, Politics News

So here's how you succeed as commander in the Afghanistan War, General Petraeus. You stay a reasonable length of time, then get your butt out of there and blame all subsequent failures on your successor.

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Shadow Elite: The Spy Who Came in From... Wall Street?

Janine R. Wedel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robert Rubin, Cia, Tom Daschle, Shadow Elite, Larry Summers, Cia/Bia, Cia Contractors, Eamon Javers, Shadow Elite Janine Wedel, Barry McCaffrey, Politics News

What are we to make of the BIA? Is it an offshoot of the CIA? As they trundle back and forth between Wall Street and Washington, does the information the CIA officers glean in one venue seep into the other?

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Surge In Casualties Predicted From Afghanistan War

Army Times | Gina Cavallaro | Posted 05.25.2011

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Americans should prepare to accept hundreds of U.S. casualties each month in Afghanistan during spring offensives with enemy forces. The dire forecas...

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Is The Government In Charge, Or Is It The Shadow Elite?

Janine R. Wedel | Posted 01.04.2012

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There was a time when Americans could have more confidence in the objectivity of the experts who advised government and pronounced on issues of vital importance.

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Networks Still Hosting Military Analysts Without Identifying Massive Conflicts Of Interest

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 05.25.2011

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Major television networks continue to host retired generals as military analysts without alerting viewers to their extensive ties to defense contracto...

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The First HuffPost Book Club Pick of 2010: Shadow Elite by Janine Wedel

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.25.2011

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My first HuffPost Book Club selection of 2010 is Janine Wedel's Shadow Elite, a gripping book that explains why it's been so hard to bring about any real change in America.

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Drug Policy Reform: Is the Timing Perfect, or Are We Ahead of the Times?

Stanton Peele | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: El Paso, Cancun, Felipe Calderon, Ciudad Juarez, Paul Cook, Gil Kerlikowske, Drug Czar, Medical Marijuana, Wall Street Journal, Mexico Drug Violence, Barack Obama, Tom Ammiano, Texas Governor Rick Perry, John Walters, Barry McCaffrey, Dominic Holden, Healthy Living News

Are those of us who seek changes in the American approach to drugs whistling in the dark, or is now the time to strike?

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Scritti Politti: February 27, 2009

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

I quite liked Mark McKinnon's piece in The Daily Beast, today, about Twitter "jumping the shark." I especially liked his admonition that we all must ...

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NBC Defends Its Embrace Of Military Flack In Email

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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I just get lost in wonderment when I peruse the email obtained by Salon's Glenn Greenwald from NBC News' Allison Gollust to David Barstow over his recent front page piece detailing how Pentagon/private-sector flack Barry McCaffrey appeared on NBC News forever and ever without news consumers ever once receiving details on his many entanglements and conflicts of interest.

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The IFC Media Project: Bill Kristol & Pentagon Propaganda

Meghan O'Hara | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: IFC Media Project, New York Times, Iraq, Bill Kristol, War in Iraq, Barry McCaffrey, Media News

Ideology is no excuse for the Pentagon's bad behavior and it's an even worse excuse for a spirit of journalism that routinely fails to tell the whole story.

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Obama Drug Czar Pick: No Recovery from War on Drugs?

Maia Szalavitz | Posted 05.25.2011

Obama shouldn't make the mistake that Bill Clinton did and install a drug czar who will ignore science and push dogma.

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Secret "War on Terror" Prison on Diego Garcia Confirmed

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

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This news will be an embarrassment to the US government, which has persistently denied claims that it operated a secret prison on Diego Garcia.

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Military Propaganda Pushed Me Off TV

Jeff Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

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The major TV networks were not hoodwinked by a Pentagon propaganda scheme. No government agency forced MSNBC to repeatedly feature the hawkish generals unopposed.

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