Politics – One of the greatest sins the U.S. government could commit was to turn a propaganda machine loose on the American people. Every appropriations bill passed since 1951 has contained language that says no public money "shall be used for publicity or propaganda purposes within the United States" without the lawmakers prior approval.
FTA:
"Particularly abhorrent...is an agency's use of 'covert attempts to mold opinion through the undisclosed use of third parties.' "
"This is why alarm bells should be ringing all over Washington about The New York Times' disclosure that then-Secretary of Defense...Rumsfeld encouraged a secret Pentagon program to care for and spoon-feed more than 50 retired senior military officers whom the administration deemed reliable friends who could be counted on 'to carry our water' on the television and cable networks."
"Feeding the military analysts 'key and valuable information' in secret briefings by Pentagon and White House officials...would make them the go-to guys for the networks and encourage the networks to 'weed out the less reliably friendly analysts.' "
At what point do these criminals wind up before a judge for their illegal activities? Or are Republicans only interested in jailing people of the opposing party?
More FTA:
"There's little doubt that this program violated the laws against covert propaganda operations mounted against the American public by their own government. But in this administration, there's no one left to enforce that law or any of the other laws the Bush operatives have been busy violating."
"The real crime is that the scheme worked. The television network bosses swallowed the bait, the hook, the line and the sinker, and they have yet to answer for it."
My feelings exactly. And for any Neocons who might stumble by, remember just how many high-ranking military officers, from major on up, who either left the military since 2003, or were forced out, due to their disagreements with the Administration over their conduct of the war.
What's left is the need to restore our almost-free press, to try and salvage something of the rule of law, and to make an example of these miscreants.
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Rummy wasn't only feeding lies for these retired folks to push.
Wesley Clark has written that Rummy had folks come to him while on CNN to push that Sadam had WMD; but, when Clark asked for proof, he got none!
This is what happens when you have a president with an executive order for political oversight of all governemt functions!