Who Is Dana Bash Really?

By B.A. Brooks
U.A.F.F. NEWS
January 21st, 2012
 

Dana Bash (born Dana Ruth Schwartz; June 15, 1971) is an American reporter and anchorwoman for CNN who currently covers the Capitol Hill beat alongside her husband John King and Jessica Yellin. Previous to this assignment, she was a White House correspondent for the network.

After completing her undergraduate political communications B.A. degree at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C., she joined CNN as Dana Schwartz. Before becoming an on-air reporter, she was a producer for CNN on Capitol Hill, specializing in coverage of the U.S. Senate. Previous to that assignment, she produced for CNN's weekend programs, Late Edition, Evans & Novak and Inside Politics.

Bash is the daughter of Stu Schwartz, an ABC News producer who is currently the senior broadcast producer of ABC News, based at Good Morning America. Her mother, Frances Weinman Schwartz, is an author and educator in Jewish studies. Bash's brother, David Schwartz, is a New York City-based video producer.

On May 25, 2008, she married fellow CNN correspondent John King, who converted to Judaism prior to marrying her. It is her second marriage, having previously been married to Jeremy Bash.

 

Now let's look at who Jeremy Bash is:

Jeremy B. Bash is the Chief of Staff to Leon Panetta, the Secretary of Defense. He was given the position in July 2011, at the same time as Panetta. He previously held the same position (to the same person) at the Central Intelligence Agency.

He is a former term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He has spoken at conferences or as part of courses for Harvard Law School, Georgetown Law School, American University, and the National War College.

Bash previously served as Chief Counsel of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the U.S. House of Representatives. In this position, he advised the Committee Chairman and the other 11 members of the committee's majority on policy and oversight matters related to the operations of the nation's 16 intelligence agencies.

What Is Mockingbird?

 

 

Starting in the early days of the Cold War (late 40's), the CIA began a secret project called Operation Mockingbird, with the intent of buying influence behind the scenes at major media outlets and putting reporters on the CIA payroll, which has proven to be a stunning ongoing success. The CIA effort to recruit American news organizations and journalists to become spies and disseminators of propaganda, was headed up by Frank Wisner, Allen Dulles, Richard Helms, and Philip Graham (publisher of The Washington Post). Wisner had taken Graham under his wing to direct the program code-named Operation Mockingbird and both have presumably committed suicide. (read more)

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