Entries by emptywheel

Condi’s Pissing Contest with Moqtada al-Sadr

Back when Dick Cheney snuck into Iraq to meet with Nuri al-Maliki, it was unclear whether Cheney’s visit related to Maliki’s subsequent, ill-fated offensive into Basra. I submit that we need have no doubts about what comes next. Condi has made it very clear she owns–we own–whatever atrocities are about to happen in Sadr City.

The Pentagon’s Media Analyst Domestic Psy-Ops Program: Is It Legal?

By now you have probably heard that the New York Times has an in-depth piece by David Barstow out for Sunday’s edition on the use by the Pentagon of media “military experts” as propaganda conduits. Nearly everybody is discussing this story, but in addition to denouncing this disingenuous propaganda program we should also ask whether it it is legal under existing US law.

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