The Revolving Door

In the last few discussions and readings (especially Barstow), the idea of a revolving door has been brought up, but not focused on enough in my opinion. For those people, such as the retired N.Y.P.D. officer in "Why We Fight", that get discouraged over what the DoD and the Administration is getting away with by blatantly lying to the media, want some help. The only check on this system seems to be the 'watchdog' military analysts that get inside information on how wars are being fought. However, when this watchdog happens to be the product of the same system, their is ultimately no protection to what the federal government is capable of doing. These military analysts in many cases have either had close ties with politicians, corporations, and especially ties to the military where they either know higher-ups or have a fraternal relationship with these men. Also, if the analysts are ever to speak negatively about a DoD situation, they are likely to have their access to special information cutoff, and can easily be replaced by another analyst waiting in the wings for their chance to the privelliged information. In order to fix this system, we need unbiased supervisors helping out in the gathering of this information. Background checks on ties to anything that would influnce the MIC should be gathered and influence who gets determine what is really going on in Washington. Perhaps it is far too late now in Iraq, but before the next big project undertaken by Washington involving the DoD, the media needs to be given a better perspective for the American people and the world. We should not have to find out years later that thousands of people died and billions of dollars were wasted for reasons that ended up being apparantly untrue.