General

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</div><div>The following is a selection of commentators, profiled at greater length below, who have multiple undisclosed ties to the defense industry and have expressed strong support for military intervention in Syria in multiple appearances:<ul><li><a href="http://littlesis.org/person/1742/John_M_Keane">Jack Keane</a> has strongly supported striking Syria on PBS, the BBC, and Fox News. Though Keane is currently a director of <a href="http://littlesis.org/org/88/General_Dynamics">General Dynamics</a>, one of the world’s largest military services companies, and a venture partner of <a href="http://littlesis.org/org/130465/SCP_Partners">SCP Partners</a>, a defense-focused investment firm, only his military and think tank affiliations were identified in all sixteen appearances.</li><li><a href="http://littlesis.org/person/11454/General_Anthony_Zinni">General Anthony Zinni</a> has expressed support for military action in Syria during three appearances on CNN and one on CBS This Morning, and has been quoted in the Washington Post. Though a director with major defense contractor <a href="http://littlesis.org/org/43616/BAE_Systems_plc">BAE Systems</a> and an advisor to defense-focused private equity firm <a href="http://littlesis.org/org/72968/DC_Capital_Partners_LP">DC Capital Partners</a>, only Zinni’s military experience was considered relevant by the media outlets interviewing him all five times.</li><li><a href="http://littlesis.org/person/60272/Stephen_J_Hadley">Stephen Hadley</a> has voiced strong support for a strike on Syria in appearances on Bloomberg TV, Fox News, and CNN, as well as in a Washington Post op-ed. Though he has a financial stake in a Syria strike as a current <a href="http://littlesis.org/org/113/Raytheon_Company">Raytheon</a> board member, and is also a principal at consulting firm <a href="http://littlesis.org/org/131094/RiceHadleyGates_LLC">RiceHadleyGates</a>, he was identified all four times only as a former National Security Advisor to George W. Bush.</li></ul></div>