Crossposted at dailykos.
I was looking for information on the WHIG wunderkind <s>Jimmy Olsen</s> Jim Wilkinson, and I came across this article from September of 2002 on a website called theexperiment.org.
Unless this is an administration plant (not beyond the realm of possibility) this article appears to describe the genesis of WHIG.
Please see below for a sample of the article and a list of the creepy creatures originally involved:
“We’re getting the band together,” White House Communications Director Dan Bartlett told the group on their first conference call last week.
The “Band” is made up of the people who brought you the war in Afghanistan, or at least the accompanying public-relations campaign. Their greatest hit: exposing the Taliban’s treatment of women.
Now, they’re back for a reunion tour on Iraq. The Band’s instrument, of course, is information.
They aim to use it against Saddam Hussein, respond to his disinformation and control the message within the administration so no one, not even Vice President Dick Cheney, freelances on Iraq.
That’s no easy task. The members talk every day by phone at 9:30 a.m.
The key players are a handful of rising stars in their early 40s and under:
The playas listed are Wilkinson, Dan Bartlett, Tucker Eskew, Alastair Campbell(a Brit), Mary Matalin, Tori Clarke and Richard Boucher.
The author of the piece is Martha Brant, a Newsweek reporter who is listed here as working for the Orange County Register. Hmm. She is well known enough by Traitor Bush that he has given her a nickname. Martita. Double Hmm.
If this is all old news (or debunked as a plant) let me know and I’ll gladly delete.
