The Final Friday News Dump. Pentagon Pundits IG Report. (TPM).

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Pentagon Pundits IG Report Coming at 4 PM
By Elana Schor - January 16, 2009, 11:34AM

The Defense Department inspector general's office tells us that their report on the military's TV pundits program is due online at 4pm today. The Bush administration says goodbye with another Friday news dump...

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/01/pentagon_pundits_ig_report_coming_at_4_pm.php


Not that the (largely) self-same state-run media was going to report on itself, anyway...

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1. While we wait.... just a few names...

Participants

From the New York Times story and associated documents: <1><2>

* Carl Kenneth Allard
* Jed Babbin
* Robert S. Bevelacqua
* Dennis C. Blair
* Peter Brookes
* Frank B. Campbell
* James Jay Carafano
* Wesley Clark
* William V. Cowan
* Gordon Cucullu
* Dana R. Dillon
* Wayne A. Downing
* Timur J. Eads
* David M. Finkelstein
* Ronald Fogleman
* Rick Francona
* John C. Garrett
* Buster Glosson
* David L. Grange
* Steven Greer
* Jack Jacobs
* David E. Jeremiah
* George Joulwan
* William F. Kernan
* Glenn Lackey
* Walter P. Lang
* Thomas Joseph Lopez
* Robert L. Maginnis
* James Marks
* Barry R. McCaffrey
* Jeffrey D. McCausland
* Thomas G. McInerney
* Montgomery Meigs
* Andy Messing, Jr.
* Thomas S. Moorman, Jr.
* Michael J. Nardotti, Jr.
* Charles T. Nash
* William L. Nash
* Glenn K. Otis
* Joseph W. Ralston
* Erv Rokke
* Robert H. Scales Jr.
* H. Hugh Shelton
* Donald W. Shepperd
* Carlton A. Sherwood
* Steve Short
* Wayne Simmons
* Perry Smith
* Martin Strong
* Robert R. Timberg
* Bernard Trainor
* Paul E. Vallely
* John Warden
* Larry D. Welch
* Charles E. Wilhelm
* Thomas Wilkerson


http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Investigating_the_Pentagon%27s_pundits

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2. One last Friday, one last dump

Have I mentioned lately just how much I hate these guys?

And what is the likelihood that any of the popular media outlets are going to utter one peep about this report? None of them want to admit they were shilling for the military or duped by its spokespeople. After all, it's in America's interests to blindly and mindlessly support the projection of American military power all over the globe, and condemn anyone else doing the same thing (exception that verifies the rule, Israel). If you start identifying the experts as "paid military propagandists," some people might not accept every word from their lips as the 100% unvarnished truth. And then where would we be? Certainly not one of those enviable countries where military considerations trump everything else, and set every policy, proposal and spending outlay.

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3. And here it is at last:

Right here

Looks to be 85 pages in pdf.

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4. So it was just the NYT's and our wild imaginations. What a relief.

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