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Topic started on 7-5-2008 @ 08:05 PM by DimensionalDetective

Pentagon Propaganda Documents Go Online! But Will The Media Ever Report Them?


counterpunch.org
Eight thousand pages of documents related to the Pentagon's illegal propaganda campaign, known as the Pentagon military analyst program, are now online for the world to see, although in a format that makes it impossible to easily search them and therefore difficult to read and dissect. This trove includes the documents pried out of the Pentagon by David Barstow and used as the basis for his stunning investigation that appeared in the New York Times on April 20, 2008.

The Pentagon program, which clearly violated US law against covert government propaganda, embedded more than 75 retired military officers -- most of them with financial ties to war contractors -- into the TV networks as "message surrogates" for the Bush Administration. To date, every major commercial TV network has failed to report this story, covering up their complicity and keeping the existence of this scandal from their audiences.

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reply posted on 7-5-2008 @ 09:09 PM by MemoryShock
So here we are...with an oppurtunity to take advantage of the huge member resource we have and just released proof of the DoD actively conspiring on how to best present information to the public in an effort to gain public support, if not just dissuade popular derision.

I don't know about you, but I am pretty fed up with being lied to and taken for granted here....so let's divide the work load and decide where best to place the results....Research Forum anyone? Given enough interest and the appropriately motivated individuals...I say that there is no reason why we can't just download all the documents now and start annotating and analyzing beyond the wonderful, "So there is proof and now I am going to go buy doughnuts," reaction that many of us have had in the past...

To get us started and show that I am not just interested in spouting an rally cry...


www.dod.mil... .pdf

"Likely Questions"

Anticipation of media/public inquiry and prepared answers. Something that would be more interesting to get in further after more context has been established by research and corroboration of 'period' sources and information. Suffice to say that it is important (as well as a nobrainer) to acknowledge that these things are planned for. The potential tidbits of interest are potentially contained in extrapolated pieces or connections (contradictions, omitted information)...such as the following question.

Why was "The Major Theater War" Strategy conceptualized at the end of the Cold War, which was in 1991? Granted the Gulf War began in 1991, but the War on Terror wasn't coined for another decade. MTW, by the way is the capacity to fight regional wars simultaneously and its' coined term suggests that our defense sector successfully anticipated the 'miniturization of war'. Speculation at this point by me, but enough to cause me to raise an eye brow...

The documents are worth a look through...and there is much to learn. By pooling our resources and attention, we may come out with something than a, "Well Duh, I have known that all along."


reply posted on 7-5-2008 @ 11:48 PM by MemoryShock
Fixed Link

Kind of weird how the link above doesn't work...but it is document 41 under the May 10, 2007 heading using whatukno's link....

No Problem, whatukno...give me a bit of time to familiarize myself with the various directions and to draw up project goals, etc. and we'll get this party started.

I can't see an opportunity like this pass by...we see 'interesting' information everyday, but how often do we get to situate ourselves in the middle of a breaking story?

We have the resources and intelligence. Let's use them...

[edit on 7-5-2008 by MemoryShock]


reply posted on 8-5-2008 @ 11:56 AM by MemoryShock


Anyone want to perhaps offer suggestions as to what the highlighted material means?

Suggestive....also, could someone perhaps go through this document to the part where Rumsfeld is discussing "Embedding"? I have no idea what that means and would like some help figuring that one out...
2007 Rumsfeld Interview




And this is what I am talking about...documented source showing a General advising the media to discuss an out of context conflict (Syria) when referencing the War on Terror in terms of public presentation.

The military and media have lied. Period and end of story. Are we going to let it slide by?
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