Shut the Door, the Horse is Gone!

So yesterday – like what, a week and a half after Major General Taguba’s report on prisoner abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq became widely available over the Internet? – the Office of the Secretary of Defense puts out a DoD-wide urgent bulletin telling military and DoD personnel they can’t access or read it because it’s […]

News or Propaganda?

The first thing I read each morning at work is the online edition of the Early Bird, the daily collection of defense-related press clippings put out by the Department of Defense. If you read only the Wall Street Journal, say, or the Washington Post, you might think you’re getting objective, unbiased coverage of the news. […]