Commentary: The dangers of disinformation in the war on terrorism

By Maud S. Beelman

WASHINGTON, February 2, 2002 — "In wartime," Winston Churchill once said, "truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a body

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Collateral damage

By Nathaniel Heller, Tom Stites and Ben Welsh

'Tell them nothing till it's over and then tell them who won'

By Philip Knightley

A citizen’s guide to understanding U.S. foreign military aid

By The Int'l Consortium of Investigative Journalists

A casualty in the war on terror

By Nathaniel Heller

Excerpts from this story referencing "media restrictions":

"… during the 1982 Falklands War, according to a 1991 study of U.S. military media restrictions from Grenada to the Persian Gulf by Jacqueline Sharkey and the Center for …"

Commentary: Freedom of information under attack

By Charles Lewis

Asking the tough questions required of "watchdog journalism" is especially difficult in a national crisis atmosphere of fear, paranoia and p

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Our broken government - An update

By Josh Israel

Center posts state legislators' personal financial disclosure

By Sarah Laskow

Is the Democratic platform in synch with the public on national defense?

By Aaron Mehta and R. Jeffrey Smith

Fat Cat Hotel still open for business

By M. Asif Ismail

Excerpts from this story referencing "media restrictions":

"… nada to the Persian Gulf. The major architect of the infamous Persian Gulf media restrictions, then-Secretary of Defense Richard Cheney, is now the vanishing vice presi …"

Commentary: Clamping down on freedom of the press

The clamp-down on the freedom of the press by the executive and judicial branches of the U.S. government, begun in the wake of September 11

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'Full and open debate'

By The Center for Public Integrity

Nixon to grand jury: $100,000 cash contributions and rewarding donors with ambassadorships

By John Aloysius Farrell

Special Report: White House refuses to release list of Gore's sleepover guests

By Nathaniel Heller

Vice president's quarters draws fund-raisers' bucks

By Russ Tisinger

Excerpts from this story referencing "media restrictions":

"… on, Cheney was one of the architects of the controversial Persian Gulf War media restrictions, as Jacqueline Sharkey documented in the 1992 Center for Public Integrity …"

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Will truth again be first casualty?

By Jacqueline Sharkey

"Well, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld said he had imposed no press restrictions. In fact, he said he hadn't really even considered the issue of

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Pentagon lacks funding to fix public schools on military bases

By Emma Schwartz

A family connection

Center report finds $362 billion in no-bid contracts at the Pentagon since 1998

By The Center for Public Integrity

IMPACT: Nelson calls conditions at some military base schools "shameful"

By Kristen Lombardi

Excerpts from this story referencing "media restrictions":

"… e House.Falklands War provided model of press controlThe current system of media restrictions and information control is the latest refinement in a Pentagon and White H …"

"… nama, too, many restrictions politically basedEvidence indicates that many media restrictions in Panama were politically based. For example, Defense Secretary Richard B …"

"… press. The sad truth is that while reporters and editors complained about media restrictions, in the end many of them presented precisely the data and images that the …"