This confirms...

what we already knew, and have been saying for years, that the first casualty of the war in Iraq was the mainstream media...


"But The (New York) Times successfully sued the Defense Department to gain access to 8,000 pages of e-mail messages, transcripts and records describing years of private briefings, trips to Iraq and Guantánamo and an extensive Pentagon talking points operation.

These records reveal a symbiotic relationship where the usual dividing lines between government and journalism have been obliterated."


(excerpt from "Behind Military Analysts, the Pentagon's Hidden Hand," an article in today's "New York Times.")