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Why, by reading the Hotline...

See here.

BTW: The Pentagon has released all the documents it gave to the New York Times after a FOIA request."}],"editorialProject":null,"primaryCategory":{"__typename":"Channel","displayName":"Politics","url":"https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/","slug":"politics"},"reviews":[],"embeds":[],"authors":[{"id":"Author:1176","displayName":"Marc Ambinder","url":"https://www.theatlantic.com/author/marc-ambinder/","biography":{"default":"Marc Ambinder is a senior fellow at the USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership and Policy.","__typename":"Biography"},"socialMedia":[{"platform":"TWITTER","url":"https://twitter.com/marcambinder","__typename":"SocialMedia"}],"__typename":"Author","slug":"marc-ambinder"}],"preview":null,"layout":"standard","secondaryByline":"","dek":"","url":"https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2008/05/the-pentagons-influencers-project/53019/","title":"The Pentagon's Influencers Project","seoTitle":"The Pentagon's Influencers Project","dateModified":"2008-09-29T22:11:41Z","datePublished":"2008-05-07T14:00:58Z","hasMeter":true,"primaryChannel":{"displayName":"Politics","__typename":"Channel","slug":"politics"},"shareImage1x1":null,"shareImage16x9":null,"shareImage4x3":null,"shareImageDefault":null,"shareImageSquareDefault":null,"shareImageLeadArt":null,"shareDek":"","shareText":null,"shareTitle":"The Pentagon's Influencers Project","editorsNote":null,"leadArt":null,"narratedAudio":null,"narratedAudioImage":null,"fbiaUrl":"https://www.theatlantic.com/facebook-instant/article/53019/","canonicalUrl":"https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2008/05/the-pentagons-influencers-project/53019/","syndication":"ALL","shareImage2x1":null,"shareImageSmall":null,"channels":[{"slug":"politics","__typename":"Channel"}],"watsonInfo":{"keywords":["New York Times","military analysts","FOIA request","Pentagon"],"__typename":"WatsonInfo"},"slug":"the-pentagons-influencers-project","grapeshot":{"segments":["gv_safe","gb_safe","pos_safe_core","pos_safe_strict","gs_busfin","gs_busfin_indus","gs_politics","shadow9hu7_pos_bofa-kwlist","gs_busfin_indus_defense","gs_politics_american","shadow9hu7_pos_customtopics","shadow9hu7_pos_lexus_fy23","ukraineinvasion_excl","gs_tech_compute_net_social","gs_tech","gs_tech_compute","gs_tech_compute_net"],"__typename":"Grapeshot"},"advertisingInfo":{"disableHouseAd":false,"__typename":"AdvertisingInfo"}}}

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