JAMES BAMFORD in Rolling Stone: The Man Who Sold the War.

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Frannie Wellings <fwellings () freepress net>
Date: December 1, 2005 3:34:08 PM EST
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] JAMES BAMFORD in Rolling Stone: The Man Who Sold  
the War.

Hi Dave,

Along the lines of that Rolling Stone article, at Free Press we have  
a campaign called "Bush's War on the Press" that's focused on the  
administration's propaganda.

More information at: http://freepress.net/presswar/

Best,

Frannie

***
Frannie Wellings
Free Press
http://www.freepress.net


David Farber wrote:

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject:     JAMES BAMFORD in Rolling Stone: The Man Who Sold the War.
> Date:     Mon, 21 Nov 2005 21:10:16 -0800
> From:     geoff goodfellow <geoff () beat net>
> To:     farber () cis upenn edu
>
>
>
> The Man Who Sold the War
> Meet John Rendon, Bush's general in the propaganda war
> By JAMES BAMFORD
> RollingStone.com
>
> ...
>
> John Walter Rendon Jr. rises at 3 a.m. each morning after six hours of
> sleep, turns on his Apple computer and begins ingesting information --
> overnight news reports, e-mail messages, foreign and domestic
> newspapers, and an assortment of government documents, many of them
> available only to those with the highest security clearance. According
> to Pentagon documents obtained by Rolling Stone, the Rendon Group is
> authorized "to research and analyze information classified up to Top
> Secret/SCI/SI/TK/G/HCS" -- an extraordinarily high level of clearance
> granted to only a handful of defense contractors. "SCI" stands for
> Sensitive Compartmented Information, data classified higher than Top
> Secret. "SI" is Special Intelligence, very secret communications
> intercepted by the National Security Agency. "TK" refers to
> Talent/Keyhole, code names for imagery from reconnaissance aircraft
> and spy satellites. "G" stands for Gamma (communications intercepts
> from extremely sensitive sources) and "HCS" means Humint Control
> System (information from a very sensitive human source). Taken
> together, the acronyms indicate that Rendon enjoys access to the most
> secret information from all three forms of intelligence collection:
> eavesdropping, imaging satellites and human spies.
>
> ...
>
> James Bamford is the best-selling author of "A Pretext for War: 9/11,
> Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies" (2004) and
> "Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security
> Agency" (2001). This is his first article for Rolling Stone.
>
> http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/8798997
>
> --
> geoff djs beat.net to the bay area fridays noon to 3pm on kzsu 90.1  
> fm.



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