NPR--Pentagon's Office of Special Plans Under Scrutiny

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

audio link from Morning Editon 2/24/04
http://www.npr.org/rundowns/segment.php?wfId=1694399

Senate investigators looking into pre-war intelligence failures are taking a closer look at the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans. Pentagon officials say the office was a policy-planning group. Critics say it was created to second-guess CIA intelligence on Iraq. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly reports.


Well, where NPR goes, others may follow. At least she is getting some press.



Note to mods... I know this topic was covered in another thread, but this is, as far as I can tell, the first time major US media has mentioned this, so I feel it needs a new thread.
Thanks.

[Cush]

1. about time

[never cry wolf]

2. yeah, duhhh

Extremely about time!

Eventually all the crap we all have known about for years is gonna come out, it's basically a race to get it out before November!

[leftchick]

3. Thank you for the link WJMS!

Time to start calling and faxing our Senators about this again...

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

12. You are welcome.

I believe there are more pieces in this series coming.

[Jazzgirl]

4. Somebody is finally waking up?

Its taken long enough for someone to start investigating OSP's roll in the pre-war "intelligence." Lots of people have been talking about them since 2002 but until recently mainstream media never mentioned them.

Jazzgirl

[0007]

5. Every day something new is coming out. Woops! This ain't new

Go NPR go

[salin]

6. only when the OSP becomes a familiar term/concept

to the public... will bushco and his "investigation panel" - be forced to include OSP rather than only talk about the CIA (as is currently intended.) When OSP becomes commonly known, any investigation that completely ignores OSP would be perceived widely (not just among partisans) as a sham.

Glad to hear this made it to NPR. May the humm around the name of that office (and all that it entails) continue to grow to a constant drone and eventually a roar.

OSP.... OSP... OSP

We will know that it has broken mainstream when rush etal begin to push story lines that discount the role of OSP - as it will indicate that the story is broadspread and understood enough for them (and by indication teamRove) to feel pushed to have to discount/spin the story another way.

[leftchick]

8. tweety was ranting about it for a couple of days ....

a while ago, then poof gone!

[priller]

7. The Pentagon was basically caught red-handed lately

When the memo surfaced last week that Chalabi's INC group was *still* getting paid millions for their bogus info, it became unavoidably clear that the OSP was doing exactly what they denied they were doing: funneling bogus intel straight to the VP.

[sendero]

9. I love it ....

... when NPR does the right thing. It's kinda like seeing a comet. :)

[callous taoboy]

10. Myself-

I'm really fed up with the obsession the bushwackers have with secrecy and shadow governments.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

11. Yeah, sometimes there is a spark of the old NPR

there. The last little bastion of the "mainstream liberal media" well, except Pacifica, of course.

I have noticed a definate shift in NPR coverage in the last couple of weeks, there is a lot less of the soft BJ pieces and more about the effects of policy.

I have a feeling that a senior editor or producer at NPR must have had a sea change of opinion recently.