Can someone give me the straight dope on "Benador Associates"

[MrTuffPaws]

I like to read and partake in the whole Iraq war debate. The more I look into it, pro-war folks are sighting articles from Benador Associates as sources. Such as

http://www.benadorassociates.com/ijaz.php

Now being the good little debater that I try to be, I started looking into the company and where they get their sources.

I find things like this:

Conflict and catchphrases

Which basically says that Benador Associates is a PR group that caters to the pro-war faction of the Government.

Can someone give me the straight dope about Benador Associates. Should I take them as a serious source of credible information?

[Ice_Wolf]

Sounds like they have a pre-arranged agenda. Take their info with a pinch of salt, and find confirmations elsewhere.

From this site:

A little-known public relations agency in New York called Benador Associates has assembled as clients, virtually all of the so-called sources on whom the intelligence on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction has rested. The Benador team members are committed to a unilateral, pre-emptive war against Iraq, and the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. Proprietress Eleana Benador is a Peruvian, now living in the United States, who also works for the notorious anti-Islam journal Middle East Quarterly, published by Daniel Pipes’ Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI). <snip>

In the former Soviet Union, the job of Benador Associates would have been known as “agit-prop,” that is, “agitation and propaganda.”

[The_Raven_1]

Ummmm…

Ice Wolf, did you realize your link is to the LaRouchies?

Electronic Intelligence Weekly is the online newsweekly of the LaRouche movement.

Almost as good as the Scientology “Seal of Approval”

-Rav

[Ice_Wolf]

Hmm. I’m not sure what you mean by the Scientology reference, The_Raven, but I see what you mean about LaRouche.

What I said in my post, though, I stand by. Treat any new source like Benador with caution, if you want to ensure an unbiased opinion. Many of the sites decrying them, however, are leftwing in nature. Dunno how you’d categorise LaRouche – and sorry, all that stuff is new to this foreigner.