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October 9, 2008

FCC to Probe Pentagon Propaganda Program
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The Federal Communications Commission has launched a probe into what
critics say was a Pentagon propaganda program ahead of the Iraq war.
Beginning in 2002, the Pentagon recruited more than seventy-five retired
military officers to appear on TV outlets as so-called military analysts
to portray Iraq as an urgent threat. Congressional Quarterly reports the
FCC is looking into whether TV networks and certain on-air analysts
broke the law by failing to disclose to viewers that the apparently
independent analysts were in fact part of a Pentagon-funded information
campaign.



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