A member of the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday threatened an amendment to block funding for Pentagon propaganda efforts, citing reports critical of their management and others exposing the Pentagon’s contractor for tax evasion.
Recent reports published by USA Today exposed the dubious nature and exorbitant costs of the Pentagon’s “Information Operations,” (IO) which the newspaper described as “the modern equivalent of psychological warfare,” or war propaganda.
Subsequent USA Today reports exposed the Pentagon’s top contractor for IO for failing to pay up to $4 million in federal taxes, even as they were receiving government contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
Just days after these reports came to light, the USA Today reporters were targeted in a coordinated misinformation campaign, with false Facebook and Twitter accounts created in their names and Wikipedia entries and dozens of message board postings about them.
The reporters suspected the IO contractors were involved, and became even more suspicious when the sites disappeared as soon as the Pentagon made formal inquiries. If it was done using federal funds, it could violate federal laws prohibiting the production of propaganda for domestic consumption.
Now, Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA), is threatening to target the information operations program, calling it a “fiasco” and saying contracts with the largest propaganda contractor, Leonie Industries, should be immediately suspended.
Johnson also called for an investigation into the apparent retaliation attacks against the USA Today journalists reporting on the program, whom he said were “targeted in a possibly criminal disinformation and reputation attack.”
Did this make CBS evening news? CNN? foxnews?
…so if they defund that, are we in for an age of national-security-threatening forthright honesty? …or do they just look sillier while stuck lying to your face?
Whatever the government does or doesn´t do, it will be a direct reflection on the Capitalist system in America. The acts described in the article are not those of a free enterprise system.
Does 'anyone' with IQ larger then thier shoe size think anyone is going to change the system?
Black water comes to mind,just change your name , KBR,Haliburton,ect,ect got no bid contracts
Dick Chaney comes to mind(he's allready personaly cost American taxpayers million's of $ just
for all the heart work we paid for it's prob'ly a lie I don't think he had a heart think he pocketed the
$),anyway cont'r gets the $ gives some back to congress,then congress gives out another contract
& cycle repeats. Your getting screwed American's!
More bread and circus in the empire burlesque.
Empire USA — Pathological liars unequaled
Illusions of good flow into our minds do so disarm us, that fast thinkers do always enrich themselves upon the misery of us.
But not so in the beginning, for the knowledge of how to use a pretense of good to hide a criminal intent, this is supernatural knowledge that had to be given to man by some supernatural sadistic creature.
Lesson learned for the media: When publishing these types of articles, do not include a byline. The Pentagram's lie factory could never have launched their smear campaign had they not known the writers' names. Either that, or create a fake byline and nail the IO gang when they retaliate. Google "Reflipe W. Thenuz" for a historical example.
The Amerikan 'gubment' has got to be the sewage leader of planet earth..