Kudos to Stars and Stripes. Its dogged reporting has now ended a contract that the Rendon Group, a CIA-tied communications firm, had with the Pentagon to profile journalists looking to embed with with the military in Afghanistan. But there’s no concession that the actual profiling occurred:
“The decision to
So which reporters seeking to embed with the U.S. military in Iraq and Afghanistan have been profiled by the Rendon Group? Rendon, the CIA-linked communications firm contracted by the Pentagon’s public affairs shop to evaluate potential embeds’ work for its usefulness or hostility to U.S. war aims — More…
For years, reporters who embedded with the U.S. military in Iraq have traded rumors that the embed office had a blacklist for journalists whose work was unflattering. It generally takes months to work out embeds, a process that involves the submission of clips from the outset. Sometimes embeds fall through, More…
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