Retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant General Thomas McInerney is a Fox News contributor whose track record includes advising neoconservative advocacy groups ...
A vocal proponent of the idea that the United States is in a global war with “radical Islam,” McInerney has supported the work of a host of right-wing and “pro-Israel” groups that have advocated interventionist U.S. foreign policies. He has served on the advisory council of the Iran Policy Committee,[4] which is led by Raymond Tanter; on the advisory board of Rachel Ehrenfeld’s American Center for Democracy[5]; and on the Executive Council of the Intelligence Summit.[6] In addition, McInerney has addressed conferences of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) on Middle East strategic issues[7] and championed aggressive “war on terror” policies in neoconservative outlets, including the Wall Street Journal editorial page and William Kristol’s Weekly Standard.
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In early 2008 a New York Times investigative report identified McInerney as one of several dozen retired military officers—many of whom served as military analysts for various media outlets—who had received briefings by the Bush administration as part of a controversial and hitherto unknown Pentagon program to put positive spin on U.S. policies in the “war on terror.”[11] According to the Times, the Pentagon program selected the officers, who also included Barry McCaffrey and Paul Vallely, because as retired military personnel they “often got more airtime than network reporters, and they were not merely explaining the capabilities of Apache helicopters.
They were framing how viewers ought to interpret events. What is more, while the analysts were in the news media, they were not of the news media. They were military men, many of them ideologically in sync with the administration’s neoconservative brain trust, many of them important players in a military industry anticipating large budget increases to pay for an Iraq war.”[12] The Pentagon program, which began in 2002, ran until it was suspended in late April 2008, after the Times investigation broke.[13] Fox continued to use McInerney as an on-air analyst after the story’s publication.
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