MPs Expenses affair - deep skullduggery afoot

[Paul Rigby]

Annie Machon on spook control of British media:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5ljdjEvH...r_embedded

Here, she briefly mentions MI6’s Information Ops department – of which the Telegraph papers would assuredly be accounted the most regular and loyal conduit.

In the US operation referred to by Frank Rich, a lot of ex-military men and spooks were fielded by unscrupulous manipulators to deceive the public. In the case of the Telegraph revelations, by contrast, er,...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/opinio....html?_r=1

Barstow had found that the Bush Pentagon fielded a clandestine network of retired military officers and defense officials to spread administration talking points on television, radio and in print while posing as objective “military analysts.” Many of these propagandists worked for military contractors with billions of dollars of business at stake in Pentagon procurement. Many were recipients of junkets and high-level special briefings unavailable to the legitimate press. Yet the public was never told of these conflicts of interest when these “analysts” appeared on the evening news to provide rosy assessments of what they tended to call “the real situation on the ground in Iraq.”

Frank Rich, “Obama Can’t Turn the Page on Bush,” NYT, 16 May 2009

MI6 has been the engine of fascism in Europe since the WWI.