Group: US is monitoring journalists in Afghanistan

Source: AP

Group: US is monitoring journalists in Afghanistan
Wed Aug 26, 11:35 am ET

BRUSSELS – The International Federation of Journalists complained Wednesday that news people covering the war in Afghanistan are being monitored by the U.S. military to see if they are sympathetic to the American cause.

The federation said journalists seeking to travel under the protection of U.S. armed forces in Afghanistan may be screened first by an American public relations firm to see if their coverage portrays the military in a positive light.

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The complaint followed the publication Aug. 24 of an article in the Stars and Stripes, an independent daily covering the U.S. military, reporting that journalists were being screened by The Rendon Group, a Washington-based public relations company.

The article said the company "gained notoriety" before the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq "for collaborating with the Iraqi National Congress," an opposition group "reportedly funded by the CIA (that) furnished much of the false information about Iraq's supposed weapons of mass destruction used by the Bush administration to justify the invasion."

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090826/ap_on_re_eu/eu_journalists_afghanistan

Obama is almost as Republican as Bill Clinton was. Same war. Same crap.

This war will lead to thousands of innocent's deaths.

up to xenophobic conservative/ne-conservatives by continuing to fight a war on terror. Americans are much more terrorized by $3.00/gal gasoline than by Osama bin Whazzizname. Pandering to the right beat Hillary and cuddling to the right got the President elected. Its WAAAAY past time to cut and run.

Reports are in he is sunning himself on Miami Beach watching the thong Bikinis

was running a conveniance store in Detroit or Akron, Ohio.

and they become "the story"



http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=deb_1237498427

Whatever happened to her ?

Though I thought the whole affair rather dubious really, possibly a slightly less than on-the-level sort of public relations event.

Source: RawStory

The official newspaper for the Armed Forces has caught Pentagon officials spreading disinformation regarding reports on how they have allowed a private contractor to rate and profile embedded journalists.

As Raw Story reported on Monday, a public relations firm that organized the opposition to Saddam Hussein during the 1990s and “coerced” journalists during the run-up to the Iraq war is now vetting at least some embedded journalists in war zones to keep out those who have a history of writing negative stories about the US military.

“Any reporter seeking to embed with US forces is subject to a background profile by The Rendon Group, which gained notoriety in the run-up to the 2003 US invasion of Iraq for its work helping to create the Iraqi National Congress,” the military newspaper Stars & Stripes reported Monday.

The military journal partly funded by the Pentagon but editorially independent, is now reporting in a follow-up story, “Contrary to the insistence of Pentagon officials this week that they are not rating the work of reporters covering U.S. forces in Afghanistan, Stars and Stripes has obtained documents that prove that reporters’ coverage is being graded as ‘positive,’ ‘neutral’ or ‘negative...’”


Read more: http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/08/27/pentagon-caught-lying-about-profiling-journalists/

Anything is justifiable to keep our war crimes hidden, according to the criminals.

Not the least bit surprising.

While you are killing and maiming innocents who needs to know?

All perpetrated in our names! The bamboozled sheeple...