Earlier this week, we spoke to Brad Jacobson, investigative journalist with The Raw Story, about his series on a Pentagon program that, under George W. Bush used retired military analysts to produce positive wartime news coverage.  There's some question about whether that program was actually ended, as a key figure involved maintains his position in the Obama administration. Brad has another piece up on Raw Story, continuing his investigation. Here's a selection:

“It’s hard for me to tell what future leadership might decide to do,” Whitman continued. “Again, since it’s not part of the media operations aspect of public affairs here, it’s not a program for which I will be making a decision about.” Raw Story also asked Roxie Merritt if she could confirm that the military analyst program has been officially terminated. Ms. Merritt, in an email interview, first replied, “[A]t the present time, we don’t have regularly scheduled conference calls with retired military analysts” but that “we would not, however, preclude responding to queries for information from or provide future opportunities for them to talk to defense leaders and program managers.”