http://thefederalist.com/2018/08/24/the-...ts-a-fact/

"...It was in The New York Times that Rhodes — not some shady memo author or scary Israeli black ops group — said, “We created an echo chamber.”


The New Yorker story notes that in his recent memoir, Rhodes walked back his boast, contending that “all I was describing was the most routine aspect of communications work. Briefing people. Disseminating fact sheets.” But that’s not what he said at the time, and it’s not what the evidence demonstrates. “They were saying things that validated what we had given them to say,” Rhodes maintained. That’s what they did, and that’s what they still do. Though he probably regrets boasting about how easy it was to dupe willing reporters, the idea that that he was talking about commonplace PR work is also absurd...."