CNN Helps Mike Hayden Uncork A Fine Whine

By: bmaz Monday October 19, 2009 12:35 pm

Michael Hayden is at it again. This time it is CNN that has donated the bandwidth to his continued petty whining about the release of the OLC Torture Memos. After acknowledging that the matter is over and now simply a matter of history, Hayden, in a “Special to CNN Comment” bearing today’s date, says: I [...]

If They Cut Off Your Rent-A-Generals, Just Buy-An-Advisor

By: emptywheel Tuesday May 13, 2008 8:14 am

I highly recommend checking out this Media Matters database, which lists all 4500 appearances the Rent-A-Generals named in NYT’s article on the program (I hope Media Matters expands it to include other Rent-A-Hacks listed in the full document dump). Here, for example, are the appearances made by David Grange, the most prolific Rent-A-General, just as the Iraq War began.

Kind of hard to see, I know, but it basically reads CNN CNN

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