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GRITtv: Bumbling Buggers or Intelligence Operatives?
Yesterday, Laura called our attention to the strange tale of the attempt at bugging Sen. Mary Landrieu's New Orleans office, noting the stories uncovered by indie reporters connecting the dots between the ACORN sting, the break-in, and funding flowing into universities from the nation's intelligence agencies -- as well as right-wing organizations. David Price wrote a piece in Counterpunch, "Silent Coup," about the intelligence operations on campus, and Lindsay Beyerstein uncovered the connection between one of the Landrieu arrestees and those same programs; her work was cited in Raw Story's "Landrieu Phone Plot: Men Arrested have Links to Intelligence Community." They joined us to talk about the disturbing layers to this story, and discuss where it goes next.
Email this pageGRITtv: Maintaining Bush's Propaganda Program?
Under George W. Bush, the Pentagon used retired military analysts to produce positive wartime news coverage. The story was broken by the New York Times, and reporter David Barstow won a Pulitzer for his work. Brad Jacobson, investigative journalist with The Raw Story, has discovered that a key figure in that Bush administration program remains in the same position, as deputy assistant secretary of defense for media operations, under Obama. Jacobson found his name in over 500 emails and transcripts, and has written a series of stories that uncovered evidence "that directly exposes this stealth media project and the activities of its participants as matching the US government?s own definition of psychological operations, or PSYOPS." Jacobson discusses his reporting and the way the Obama administration has continued certain Bush policies.
