A successful two-year lawsuit has forced the Pentagon to disclose 8,000 pages of documents. The contents reveal an extensive Pentagon disinformation campaign using military analysts as media pundits to generate favorable news coverage of the phony “war on terror.”
The analysts include over 75 retired military officers who have served as lobbyists, senior executives, board members and consultants for more than 150 military contractors receiving hundreds of billions of dollars in war contracts.
The analysts received talking points directly from Bush administration officials, including former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Vice President Dick Cheney, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and National Security Advisor Stephen J. Hadley.
Speaking on the Pentagon’s malicious manipulation, Robert S. Bevelacqua, a retired Green Beret and former Fox News analyst, said, “It was them saying, ‘We need to stick our hands up your back and move your mouth for you.’”
