A Pentagon public relations program that sought to transform high-profile military analysts into "surrogates" and "message force multipliers" for the ...
Irene Monroe | Posted 05.25.2011
This week Lady Gaga joined Maine's rally to send a message to the state's two moderate Republican senators, Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, asking th...
AP | RICHARD LARDNER | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon did not violate a federal prohibition on propaganda by using retired military officers to tout the Bush administration...
Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 05.25.2011
The Pentagon allegedly endangered U.S. soldiers by implementing and covering-up dangerously toxic waste-incineration practices at Balad Airbase in Ira...
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 ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
An ongoing exploration of the documents related to the Pentagon's "message force multipliers" program has unearthed a clip of former Defense Secretary...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
Michael Calderone and Avi Zenilman run down the ongoing effort to get network and cable news outlets to come clean on their use of "message force mult...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
One of Congress' leading progressive figures sent a harsh letter to the Department of Defense on Friday demanding an investigation into reports of an ...
Timothy Karr | Posted 05.25.2011
The Bush administration's propaganda wouldn't have spread far if it weren't for its cozy relationship with media outlets like Fox, ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.25.2011
The near-complete blackout on the Pentagon propaganda story, self-imposed by the culpable news organizations, is a despicable abdication of their role as a constitutionally protected check on our government. Read More Probing a Political Paradox: Why the Discredited Right Still Sets the Agenda and Dominates the Debate How is it that the 28 percent of the population that continues to support George W. Bush no matter how many bodies pile up in Iraq, how many jobs disappear overseas, or how high gas prices get, continues to dominate our politics? Read More Watch Arianna On: Good Morning America, 20/20, Charlie Rose, Real Time, The Situation Room, AC 360, CNN's Election Center, and MobLogic TV
The Nation | Ari Melber | Posted 05.25.2011
Hillary Clinton's campaign finally came out against the Bush administration's secret program to promote Iraq policy through television analysts on Mon...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
The aftermath of the story, for the Times, has been one of scant follow-up, lost scoops, and poor comparison when set alongside similar journalistic efforts.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle | Posted 05.25.2011
Alabama Governor Don Siegelman, fresh out of jail, talked to us about his Karl Rove-induced prosecution. He now has clear proof that his 2002 election was stolen by the GOP.
New York Times | David Barstow | Posted 05.25.2011
In the summer of 2005, the Bush administration confronted a fresh wave of criticism over Guantánamo Bay. The detention center had just been branded "...
New York Times | Posted 12.24.2011