{"id":199528,"date":"2007-07-19T05:34:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-19T10:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/19\/pentagon-to-engage-in-psych-warfare-domestically\/"},"modified":"2007-07-19T05:34:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-19T10:34:00","slug":"pentagon-to-engage-in-psych-warfare-domestically","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/19\/pentagon-to-engage-in-psych-warfare-domestically\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon to Engage in Psych Warfare Domestically"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The full article is in <i>Harper&#8217;s<\/i>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/harpers.org\/archive\/2007\/07\/hbc-90000539\"><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Meet the Pentagon\u2019s New Spin Unit: Bush Administration hacks court bloggers, talk radio<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ken Silverstein<br \/>&#8230;.<br \/>The rapid-response team has been shut down but several sources tell me that another of Smith\u2019s spin projects is ongoing. This project seeks to bypass the traditional media and work directly with talk radio and bloggers, mostly those with a heavily conservative tilt. The unit, which one source says was originally called \u201cSurrogates Operation\u201d but was later rechristened \u201cCommunications Outreach,\u201d also reportedly provides talking points and briefings to retired military officials who now support the administration in appearances as media pundits. (I haven\u2019t been able to learn which blogs and individuals the unit has been working with, but urge anyone with such information to contact me via email.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It should be noted that this effort appears to violate the law which forbids domestic Pentagon propaganda operations.<\/p>\n<p>The article, while informative, buries one of the important points in the last graph:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The irony here is that Gates has a far better relationship with the media than Rumsfeld, who treated journalists as the enemy. But with Smith running amok, Gates\u2019s honeymoon with the media and with the military may be coming to an end.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The full article is in Harper&#8217;s.&#8221; Meet the Pentagon\u2019s New Spin Unit: Bush Administration hacks court bloggers, talk radio Ken Silverstein&#8230;.The rapid-response team has been shut down but several sources tell me that another of Smith\u2019s spin projects is ongoing. This project seeks to bypass the traditional media and work directly with talk radio and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1052,1064,1006,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes","category-media","category-military","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199528"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}