ROVE: I think you ought to ask McCain why he is so reticent to talk about himself personally....He's the most private person I've ever seen in my life.

O'REILLY: And he -- but he's wrote books on it. See, that's the inconsistency.... He writes it in a book, but he won't go out and talk. I think he may be shy about it.

ROVE: Well, and it's something -- there's an admirable reticence in him. But yes, he may be comfortable having Mark Salter pry it out of him and put it in a book.

O’Reilly ended the segment by saying McCain should take his lead and "bloviate all over the place about how great you are."

Fox commentator Bill O'Reilly writes that this is evidence of the "collapse of CNN's ethical standards." That if he, O'Reilly, "signed on with Bush/Cheney 2004 the media mob would have stormed the Fox castle."

In the summer of 2005, the Bush administration confronted a fresh wave of criticism over Guantanamo Bay. The detention center had just been branded "the gulag of our times" by Amnesty International, there were new allegations of abuse from United Nations human rights experts and calls were mounting for its closure.

The administration's communications experts responded swiftly. Early one Friday morning, they put a group of retired military officers on one of the jets normally used by Vice President Dick Cheney and flew them to Cuba for a carefully orchestrated tour of Guantanamo.

To the public, these men are members of a familiar fraternity, presented tens of thousands of times on television and radio as "military analysts" whose long service has equipped them to give authoritative and unfettered judgments about the most pressing issues of the post-Sept. 11 world.

Hidden behind that appearance of objectivity, though, is a Pentagon information apparatus that has used those analysts in a campaign to generate favorable news coverage of the administration's wartime performance, an examination by The New York Times has found.

The effort, which began with the buildup to the Iraq war and continues to this day, has sought to exploit ideological and military allegiances, and also a powerful financial dynamic: Most of the analysts have ties to military contractors vested in the very war policies they are asked to assess on air.

Records and interviews show how the Bush administration has used its control over access and information in an effort to transform the analysts into a kind of media Trojan horse -- an instrument intended to shape terrorism coverage from inside the major TV and radio networks.

Analysts have been wooed in hundreds of private briefings with senior military leaders, including officials with significant influence over contracting and budget matters, records show. They have been taken on tours of Iraq and given access to classified intelligence. They have been briefed by officials from the White House, State Department and Justice Department, including Mr. Cheney, Alberto R. Gonzales and Stephen J. Hadley.

In turn, members of this group have echoed administration talking points, sometimes even when they suspected the information was false or inflated. Some analysts acknowledge they suppressed doubts because they feared jeopardizing their access.

A few expressed regret for participating in what they regarded as an effort to dupe the American public with propaganda dressed as independent military analysis.

"It was them saying, 'We need to stick our hands up your back and move your mouth for you,'" Robert S. Bevelacqua, a retired Green Beret and former Fox News analyst, said.

Kenneth Allard, a former NBC military analyst who has taught information warfare at the National Defense University, said the campaign amounted to a sophisticated information operation. "This was a coherent, active policy," he said.

As conditions in Iraq deteriorated, Mr. Allard recalled, he saw a yawning gap between what analysts were told in private briefings and what subsequent inquiries and books later revealed.

"Night and day," Mr. Allard said, "I felt we'd been hosed."

O'REILLY: An audience of 10 million watched my chat with Sen. Clinton over two nights on both our 8 and 11 p.m. broadcast. In addition, tens of millions more, like Sgt. Shane Puffer serving in Iraq, saw the interview on the Net or heard it on the radio.

The print press will never acknowledge that because it speaks to the power of the FOX News Channel, but the ratings are in and the interview was a smash.

The U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported that if ANWR had been opened for development in 2005, production would have peaked at 780,000 barrels per day in 2024.

The EIA's 2006 Annual Energy Outlook (AEO) report concluded that, if ANWR had been opened for development in 2005, production would have peaked at 780,000 barrels per day in 2024, falling to 650,000 barrels per day by 2030.