Somebody had to point this out, too bad it was CHYNA
https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3138630/why-do-so-many-us-intelligence-chiefs-become-media-pundits
Several angry readers have blasted me for even questioning the professionalism and objectivity of mainstream Western, especially American, journalism. Whatever faults and flaws such journalism suffers from, I quote from one hate fan, “it’s a damn sight better than the state-controlled and state-manipulated news media in China”.
Maybe she is right. But at least we all know media outlets in China are either owned or controlled and monitored by state authorities. It may be argued, and I do argue, it’s far more insidious when news outlets claim to be independent and objective when they are not.
Consider the following list. You be the judge.
John Brennan, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and chief counterterrorism adviser to then US president Barack Obama, has been a senior national security and intelligence analyst for NBC News and MSNBC since 2018.
James Clapper, former director of national intelligence, has been a national security analyst for CNN since 2017.
Chuck Rosenberg, former acting chief of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), is the host of the MSNBC podcast The Oath with Chuck Rosenberg, and also a frequent commentator.
Michael Hayden, a retired four-star general who is a former CIA director and ex-director of the National Security Agency (NSA), has been a CNN national security analyst since 2017.
Frank Figliuzzi, former assistant director for counter-intelligence at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), is a regular contributor to NBC News and MSNBC.
Frances Townsend, former homeland security adviser under President George W. Bush, first worked for CNN before switching to CBS as its national security analyst.
Steven Hall, “retired from the Central Intelligence Agency in 2015 after 30 years of running and managing intelligence operations in Eurasia and Latin America”, according to the website The Cipher Brief’s online bio.
Samantha Vinograd, a former homeland security adviser (economics) in Iraq, worked as a foreign policy commentator for CNN before returning to government as senior counsellor for national security in the Department of Homeland Security under the current Joe Biden administration.
Former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe has been CNN’s senior law enforcement analyst since 2018.
Josh Campbell, a CNN correspondent covering law enforcement and national security, was previously a supervisory special agent with the FBI conducting national security and criminal investigations.
Philip Mudd, a CNN counterterrorism analyst, was a senior career officer at the CIA and FBI, and White House national security official.
James Gagliano is a CNN law enforcement analyst and a retired FBI supervisory special agent.
Jeremy B. Bash, who was the chief of staff at the CIA and the US Department of Defence, works for NBC and MSNBC.
Susan Hennessey? This is how a May 13 article in The Wall Street Journal describes her: “Lawfare Executive Editor Susan Hennessey announced this week she’s taking a job at the [Justice] department’s National Security Division
OK, this list can go on and on but I think you get my drift. I am sure they provide objective and unbiased analyses, and their paymasters make sure they do. And pigs fly over the mountains