Inspector general: Bush-era Pentagon officials cleared of wrongdoing

[Synicus Maximus]

Source: Washington Times

A three-year government investigation has found no wrongdoing by Bush-era Pentagon officials when they gave war briefings to retired military analysts who served as TV and radio commentators.

The probe by the Pentagon inspector general was a response to a 2008 Pulitzer Prize-winning article in the New York Times that implied the former military officers, some of whom worked for or were defense contractors, received financial favors in return for their commentary and that they were tools in a propaganda campaign.

Sources familiar with the IG’s final report said it will say officials broke no rules or laws when they provided information briefings, some from then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

Read more: http://p.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/sep/24/ig-bush-era-pentagon-officials-cleared-wrongdoing/

[givemebackmycountry]

1. Sorry...

But I don't believe anything that comes out of that right wing, Moonie owned piece of tampon wrapper crap.

[chill_wind]

2. They investigated and absolved themselves ages ago.

The Final Friday News Dump of the Bush Admin.

IG report on the Pentagon Pundit Program

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=3694005&mesg_id=3694005

I have no idea what more of themselves they were pretending to investigate for two and a half more years.

[fascisthunter]

3. yuh... they investigated themselves for crying out loud... GUILTY

[ixion]

4. lol... big shocker there.

not. When the war criminals investigate other war criminals, there is no crime.

[madamesilverspurs]

5. Next:

Bernie Madoff investigates self, exonerates same.

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[Major Hogwash]

6. Yeah, sure, and my name's Alfred E Neuman.

What a crock of shit Obama's phony fucking Justice Department has turned out to be.

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. Is the Pentagon Inspector general under the Justice Dept.?

( not disagreeing with your opinion of Just-us dept, merely inquiring into status of IG.

[jberryhill]

9. No, he works for the French police, apparently

[dixiegrrrrl]

10. Snigger.

[Politicalboi]

8. Did they find that

2.3 Trillion dollars yet? Fuckers.

[Octafish]

11. Yeah. It's not like propagandizing the American public is against the law or anything.

Or at least it used to be.

[OnyxCollie]

12. LOL!

Thursday, July 28, 2011
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php/harveywasserman.com/bcnews.go.com/en.wikipedia.org/www.fas.usda.gov/excredits/deip/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4939841#4940161

"I'm sure that if they were ever to do an investigation of their Pentagon pundits they would be cleared of any allegations of psyops, too."

Fucking prescient, I am.

[Mnemosyne]

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