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To: tejek who wrote (233278)	5/18/2005 6:54:13 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1584011

re: The US press is so screwed. I never realized how afraid they are. Maybe that's a sham too.......that we have a free press. Funny, the Bush admin finally detained that anti Castro terrorist. Before, it was next to impossible to find an article about a known terrorist living in Miami, essentially being "harbored". Now, it makes the headlines of my local paper, with the word "terrorist" in quotation marks. I guess "harboring" a terrorist isn't "news"; arresting one is news. John

To: tejek who wrote (233278)	5/18/2005 7:09:40 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 1584011

PROJECT MOCKINGBIRD: Re: The US press is so screwed. I never realized how afraid they are. Maybe that's a sham too.......that we have a free press. Maybe they were never free... The mainstream media is completely infiltrated by secret government agents and has been since the 1950s. The "free press" is totally illusory, as you suggest. spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk totse.com In the late 1970s, the Church Commission attempted to clean up some of the god-awful mess that the C.I.A. and the other secret government agencies were creating. One of the direct questions that was asked of then Director of the C.I.A., George H.W. Bush, was the names of agents that the CIA had placed in the U.S. media. Bush refused to cooperate. His successor was more forthcoming and made a deal with the committee. He wouldn't name names, but he would provide redacted resumes of agents that the CIA had placed at all the important media outlets such as the TV networks, NY Times, Washington Post, etc. The Director decided to curtail the practice after he'd provided about 400 resumes. There was no effort to remove any of these psyops agents from the American media. Their successors are still with us today. Someone like the NY Times' Judith Miller is a perfect posterchild for this sort of government duplicity in action. Miller was one of the greatest cheerleaders for the illegal and immoral war in Iraq. She lied continuously and vociferously in her role as a war whore princess. And, of course, she had easy access not only to her own paper, but to the TV networks as well. She was paid between $500 and $2,000 per appearance to lie to the American people in front of the camera.