A veteran national security journalist with NBC News and MSNBC blasted the networks in a Monday email
for becoming captive and subservient to the national security state,
reflexively pro-war in the name of stopping President Donald Trump, and
now the prime propaganda instrument of the War Machine’s promotion
of militarism and imperialism. As a result of NBC/MSNBC’s all-consuming
militarism, he said, “the national security establishment not
only hasn’t missed a beat but indeed has gained dangerous strength” and
“is ever more autonomous and practically impervious to criticism.”
The NBC/MSNBC reporter, William Arkin, is a longtime prominent war and military reporter, perhaps best known for his groundbreaking, three-part Washington Post series
in 2010, co-reported with two-time Pulitzer winner Dana Priest, on how
sprawling, unaccountable, and omnipotent the national security state has
become in the post-9/11 era. When that three-part investigative series,
titled “Top Secret America,” was published, I hailed it as one of the most important pieces
of reporting of the war on terror, because while “we chirp endlessly
about the Congress, the White House, the Supreme Court, the Democrats
and Republicans, this is the Real U.S. Government: functioning in total
darkness, beyond elections and parties, so secret, vast and powerful
that it evades the control or knowledge of any one person or even any
organization.”
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Source: The Intercept
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