Pentagon suspends controversial briefings of network television analysts

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/04/25/pentagon.briefings/

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The secretary of defense will no longer brief retired military officers-turned-network television analysts, the chief Pentagon spokesman said Friday.

Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs Robert Hastings said he suspended the program this week amid media scrutiny of the practice.

An article in the Sunday New York Times alleged that the analysts were used to push the Bush administration's messages topics including the war in Iraq and what was going on in the prison camps at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The report also claimed that some of the analysts were involved in business contracts with the Pentagon -- information the newspaper said was rarely or never disclosed, even to the networks.

[silverweb]

1. Yeah, sure.

Like I believe that. They'll just go below the radar.

[Rex]

2. Operation: Opps we got caught again.

Mission: Time to cover our asses, Pentagon stylez.

[Ilsa]

3. Good. No point in having these hired guns go out to spread the

propaganda for the War House.

[malaise]

4. Yeh just like Armstrong Williams

now they'll hire PR hacks or let Rethug/M$M hacks do it for them.

[spanone]

5. military propaganda....hmmmm when i was a kid, russia was the bad guy and did this stuff