THE PUBLIC EDITOR; The Generals' Second Careers

LAST April, The Times published an investigation of a Pentagon public relations program intended to win favorable coverage of the Bush administration's war on terror through retired officers working as military analysts on television. The report, ''Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon's Hidden Hand,'' revealed a program that gave the analysts talking points and unusual access to top officials -- contacts, the article said, that some of the officers hoped would benefit military contractors with whom the...