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ORDOTEMPLIINTERNETIS ago

Misspelling EDIT : Ret Gen Paul Vallely (not Valley)

“From this day forward, it’s going to be only America First.”

I was in Paris when President Trump spoke those words in his inaugural address, alongside former Congressman Michael Flanagan, Army Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely (Ret.), and Trump historian Frank Mitchell.

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/don-brown-prosecuting-american-warriors-for-killing-the-enemy-undermines-america-first


After 9/11, the late Roger Ailes, then the chairman and CEO of Fox News, assembled a roster of camera-ready retired military officers. Ailes wanted Fox to ooze muscular gravitas as the Pentagon went after the Taliban in Afghanistan and then Saddam Hussein in Iraq. Retired Army Maj. General Paul Vallely told me he was directed by Ailes to put together the team of military analysts and got a Fox contract for Cowan, who had already appeared on “60 Minutes” and “PBS Frontline.” Cowan distinguished himself at Fox as “a highly regarded go-to guy,” says retired Navy Captain Chuck Nash, another member of the Fox military analyst team at the time.

During this period, many of the military analysts seen on Fox and other networks, including Vallely and Cowan, were granted private Pentagon briefings and access to classified information in the run-up to the Iraq invasion and during the war. It was part of a coordinated Pentagon information campaign to “generate favorable news coverage of the [Bush] administration’s wartime performance,” the New York Times revealed in a blockbuster 2008 story.

https://www.politico.eu/article/bill-cowan-fox-news-cia-the-steely-eyed-killer-who-became-a-star-then-lost-it-all/


Retired U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely claimed “Obama is intentionally weakening and gutting our military, Pentagon, and purposely reducing us as a superpower and anyone in the ranks who disagrees or speaks out is being purged.”

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/17910


REELTalk: Coronavirus and US National Security with Major General Paul Vallely

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-byh8RYRVOk