Some of my blog readers did not like a term coined by me “Dishonest
Western Media”. Today I got an opportunity to read an article in "Information Clearing House",
I am happy to share it verbatim.
After years in the shadows overseeing espionage, kill
programs, warrantless wiretapping, entrapment, psyops and other covert
operations, national security establishment retirees are are turning to a
new line of work where they can carry out their imperial duties.
That is, propagandizing the public on cable news. Reborn
as cable news pundits, these people are cashing in. So many years working
in the dark, only to emerge in the studio lights of the same networks that rail
all day everyday against state TV from countries that America hates.
It may look crazy how many former spooks have been hired at
corporate news outlets like CNN and MSNBC as “analysts”. After spending their
careers serving the national security state, they get to shape the news under
the guise of expertise. It’s like state TV
Following is but a partial list of prominent former spooks
turned mainstream media pundits and analysts, to say nothing of the even
greater numbers of retired generals the network continuously rely on.
Former CIA Director John Brennan who is now an NBC News
senior national security and intelligence analyst
Fran Townsend, former homeland security advisor to George W.
Bush. She's now a CBS News senior national security analyst.
But CNN takes the cake — it's the biggest spook show of
all
Jim Clapper, former Director of National Intelligence, now a
CNN national security analyst
Retired General Michael Hayden, former director of the CIA
and the NSA, now a CNN national security analyst
Asha Rangappa, former FBI special agent, now CNN legal
analyst
James Gagliano, a retired FBI supervisory special agent, now
a CNN law enforcement analyst
Tony Bliken, former deputy secretary of state and former
deputy national security advisor, and now CNN global affairs analyst
Mike Rogers, former chair of the House Intelligence
Committee, now CNN national security commentator
Samantha Vinograd senior advisor to the national security
advisor under President Obama, now CNN national security analyst
Steven Hall, retired CIA chief of Russia operations, now a
CNN national security analyst
Philip Mudd, former CIA counter-terrorism official, now CNN
counter-terrorism analyst
