Barry Mccaffrey

Laura Bassett

Networks Still Hosting Military Analysts Without Identifying Massive Conflicts Of Interest

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 12.12.2009 | Media

Read More: Msnbc, General Barry McCaffrey, Military Analysts, David Barstow, Hardball With Chris Matthews, Retired Generals, Robert H. Scales, General Robert H. Scales, General Richard Myers, Barry McCaffrey, Media News

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

Stanton Peele | Posted 03.31.2009 | Living

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, Living News
Stanton Peele

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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Jason Linkins

Scritti Politti: February 27, 2009

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Michael Phelps Bong, Dyncorp, Michael Phelps, David Gregory, Twitter, Michael Phelps Marijuana, Student Loans, Fortune Magazine, Barack Obama, Barry McCaffrey, Howard McKeon, Msnbc, Kyra Phillips, Michael Phelps Kellogg, Video, Mark McKinnon, David Barstow, Pimco, Cnn, Sword Swallowing, Pentagon Military Analysts, Kellogg's, Rick Sanchez, Politics News

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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The IFC Media Project: Bill Kristol & Pentagon Propaganda

Meghan O'Hara | Posted 01.02.2009 | Media

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

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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Jason Linkins

NBC Defends Its Embrace Of Military Flack In Email

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.02.2009 | Media

Read More: Pentagon Analysts, NBC News, Message Force Multipliers, Barry McCaffrey, Media News

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

Maia Szalavitz | Posted 12.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Ramstad, Health, Drug War, Obama Transition, Drugs, Drug Policy, Barack Obama, Drug Czar, Drug Addiction, Obama Medical Marijuana, Obama Drug Czar, Obama Drugs, Addiction, Medical Marijuana, Obama Needle Exchange, Obama Drug Policy, Barry McCaffrey, Jim Ramstad, Clinton Needle Exchange, Needle Exchange, Obama Drug War, Ramstad Drug Czar, Politics News
Maia Szalavitz

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 08.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Guantanamo Detainees, Mustafa Setmariam Nasar, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Ghost Prisoners, Cia, Terrorism, Richard Clarke, Ramzi Bin Al-Shibh, Abu Zubaydah, Guantanamo, Diego Garcia, British Government, Gen. Michael Hayden, Barry McCaffrey, Hambali, Politics News
Andy Worthington

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 05.06.2008 | Media

Read More: Pentagon, Abc, Scott Ritter, Phil Donahue, Ramsey Clark, Nbc, Fox, Cbs, Eason Jordan, Pentagon Propaganda, Barry McCaffrey, Frank Sesno, Msnbc, Iraq War, Pentagon Analysts, Cnn, Media News
Jeff Cohen

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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