Chapter 37 of Michael Hastings book "The Operators" introduced me to General William B. Caldwell IV

[bobthedrummer]

This thread is about the topics discussed in Chapter 37 of The Operators, specifically the use of "information operations/IO" on the entire planet. IO used to be called "psychological operations/Psy-Ops" by the US intelligence community.

General Caldwell was in the vanguard of utilizing all the 21st century technologies of telecommunications and media to conduct IO regardless of any laws or constraints-that's the strong impression I got from reading Chapter 37 of The Operators.

To start this thread let me introduce you to General William B. Caldwell IV, US Army (ret). You are encouraged to further develop this general topic of IO/Psy-Ops.

William B. Caldwell (Wikipedia entry)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_B._Caldwell

Report: Army targeted U.S. senators with psy-ops (2-24-11 NBC)
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/34558116/?q=William Caldwell

Gen. Caldwell was not hesitant about his version of "force protection" during his career in the Army.

Top General Accused Of Blocking Corruption Probe To Help Obama (Spencer Ackerman and Noah Shachtman 6-20-12 Wired)
http://www.wired.com/2012/06/caldwell

Some of his underlings absorbed Gen. Caldwell's creative skill-sets into their leadership style.

Probe Finds Army General Obstructed Investigation-Once Again (Adam Zagorin 8-14-14 Project On Government Oversight/POGO)
http://www.pogo.org/blog/2014/08/probe-finds-army-general-obstructed-investigation.html

Today General Caldwell is an esteemed member of The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs/JINSA Gaza Assessment Task Force
http://www.jinsa.org/gaza-assessment-task-force-members-and-staff

He also does privatized IO with former colleagues

Remind Iran of U.S. Military Option (Caldwell/Vald 7-11-15 Newsday)
http://www.newsday.com/opinion/oped/remind-iran-of-u-s-military-option-1.10631791

What are your views about having your views perception-managed by IO???

[bobthedrummer]

1. Cat got your virtual tongue or something, DU? Nothing to say about Psy-Ops as MSM? n/t

[bobthedrummer]

2. Here's some recent IO from Clapper-maybe it would have been of some benefit to Michael Hastings.

Intelligence Agencies Have a "Duty to Warn" Endangered Persons (Steven Aftergood 8-24-15 Federation of American Scientists/FAS)
http://fas.org/blogs/secrecy/2015/08/duty-to-warn

I have grave doubts about the true cause of deaths of many investigative journalists, whistleblowers and witnesses-especially those who did receive death threats from individuals and groups in the intelligence community or other "authorities".

What are your views on information operations???

[OnyxCollie]

3. Information Operations Roadmap

Information Operations Roadmap
30 October, 2003

Key Assumptions and Objective (U)

• (V) Key assumptions. Information, always important in warfare, is now critical to military success and will only become more so in the foreseeable future. Three key assumptions underscore the growing importance of information:

(V) Effectively communicating V.S. Government (VSG) capabilities and intentions is an important means of combating the plans of our adversaries. The ability to rapidly disseminate persuasive information to diverse audiences in order to directly influence their decision-making is an increasingly powerful means of deterring aggression. Additionally, it undermines both senior leadership and popular support for employing terrorists or using weapons of mass destruction.

(U) We Must Improve PSYOP. Military forces must be better prepared to use PSYOP in support of military operations and the themes and messages employed in a PSYOP campaign must be consistent with the broader national security objectives and national-level themes and messages.

(U) PSYOP enhancements outlined in this report, and clarification of the respective responsibilities and tasks associated with PSYOP, DoD support to public diplomacy and public affairs, will enhance DoD's ability to aggressively conduct IO and to do so fully consistent with broader national security objectives.
CU) In particular, PSYOP must be refocused on adversary decision-making, planning well in advance for aggressive behavior modification during times of conflict. PSYOP products must be based on in-depth knowledge of the audience's decision-making processes and the factors influencing his decisions, produced rapidly at the highest quality standards, and powerfully disseminated directly to targeted audiences throughout the area of operations.
• CU) We Must Improve Network and Electro-Magnetic Attack Capability. To prevail in an information-centric fight, it is increasingly important that our forces dominate the electromagnetic spectrum with attack capabilities.

The concept includes three integrated IO functions of overriding importance:
- (U) Deter, discourage, dissuade and direct an adversary, thereby disrupting his unity of command and purpose while preserving our own.
(U) Protect our plans and misdirect theirs, thereby allowing our forces to mass their effects to maximum advantage while the adversary expends his resources to little effect.
(U) Control adversarial communications and networks and protect ours, thereby crippling the enemy's ability to direct an organized defense while preserving effective command and control of our forces.
• (U) By extension, when executed to maximum effect, seizing control of adversary communications and networks will allow Combatant Commanders to control the enemy's network and communications-dependent weapons, infrastructure, command and control and battlespace management functions.


(U) Similarly, considerable effort should be made to characterize potential adversary audiences, and particularly senior decision-makers and decision making processes and priorities. If such human factors analysis is not conducted well in advance of the conflict, it will not be possible to craft PSYOP themes and messages that will be effective in modifying adversary behavior.

- (U) Public affairs and civil military operations remain related activities as first identified in the original 1996 construct of IO.
• (U) These capabilities are related in the sense that the effects they achieve may be similar to some aspects of IO, particularly PSYOP.
• (U) One result of public affairs and civil military operations is greater support for military endeavors and thus, conversely these activities can help discourage and dissuade enemies, which PSYOP does more directly with its own tactics, techniques and procedures.
(U) IO requires coordination with public affairs and civil military operations to complement the objectives of these related activities and ensure message consistency.


(U) IO should focus on degrading an adversary's decision-making process while preserving our own. To that end, IO should:
• (U) Deter. discourage, and dissuade an adversary by disrupting his unity of command while preserving ours.
• (U) Protect our plans and misdirect theirs.
(U) Control their communications and networks while protecting ours.

!\l USD(P) should modify the PSYOP approval process so that overall PSYOP program approval and approval for all products with substantial political or strategic content or implication remains with USD(P).

(U) SOCOM should create a Joint PSYOP Support Element to coordinate Combatant Command programs and products with the Joint Staff and OSD to provide rapidly produced, commercial-quality PSYOP product prototypes consistent with overall U.S Government themes and messages.
(U) SOCOM's ongoing PSYOP Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration and modernization efforts should permit the timely, long-range dissemination of products with various PSYOP delivery systems. This includes satellite, radio and television, cellular phones and other wireless devices, the Internet and upgrades to traditional delivery systems such as leaflets and loudspeakers that are highly responsive to maneuver commanders.
10. (U) Clarify Lanes in the Road for PSYOP, Public Affairs and Public Diplomacy.
(U) Future operations require that PSYOP capabilities be improved to enable PSYOP forces to rapidly generate and disseminate audience specific, commercial-quality products into denied areas, and that these products focus on aggressive behavior modification of adversaries at the operational and tactical level of war. The likelihood that PSYOP messages will be replayed to a much broader audience, including the American public, requires that specific boundaries be established for PSYOP. In particular:
(V) PSYOP should focus on support to military endeavors (exercises, deployments and operations) in non-permissive or semi-permissive environments (i.e., when adversaries are part of the equation).
(V) DoD should collaborate with other agencies for v.s. Government public diplomacy programs and information objectives. PSYOP forces and capabilities can be employed in support of public diplomacy (e.g., as part of approved theater security cooperation guidelines.)
(V) DoD Public Affairs should be more proactive in support of u.s. Government Public Diplomacy objectives to include a broader set of select foreign media and audiences.

(U) Recommendation: Adopt a full spectrum concept of IO built upon three broad functions and five core capabilities (#2).
• (U) Three integrated IO functions. The Department's concept of IO should emphasize full spectrum IO that makes a potent contribution to effects based operations across the full range of military operations during peace, crisis and war. The concept includes three integrated IO functions of overriding importance:
- (U) Deter, discourage, dissuade and direct an adversary, thereby disrupting his unity of command and purpose while preserving our own.
- (U) Protect our plans and misdirect theirs, thereby allowing our forces to mass their effects to maximum advantage while the adversary expends his resources to little effect.
- (U) Control adversarial communications and networks and protect ours, thereby crippling the enemy's ability to direct an organized defense while preserving effective command and control of our forces.
• (D) By extension, when executed to maximum effect, seizing control of adversary communications and networks will allow Combatant Commanders to control the enemy's network and communications-dependent weapons, infrastructure, command and control and battlespace management functions.
• For example, Combatant Commanders to temporarily (redacted) infrastructure and quickly reconstitute them consistent with national objectives.

Particular emphasis will be given to examining the appropriate relationship of PSYOP to public affairs as they relate to usa communications strategies for both adversaries and non-adversaries.

(U) PSYOP is restricted by both DoD policy and executive order from targeting American audiences, our military personnel and news agencies or outlets.
• (U) However, information intended for foreign audiences, including public diplomacy and PSYOP, increasingly is consumed by our domestic audience and vice-versa.
• (U) PSYOP messages disseminated to any audience except individual decision-makers (and perhaps even then) will often be replayed by the news media for much larger audiences, including the American public.


(U) Recommendations (Numbers 6 - 9).
• (U) Requirements. To inform and influence a variety of foreign audiences in the increasingly complex global information environment, DoD should:
(U) Recommendation: Enhance and refocus PSYOP capability (#6).
• (U) Improvements in PSYOP capability are required to rapidly generate audience specific, commercial-quality products into denied areas.
• (U) Future operations require that PSYOP focus on aggressive behavior modification at the operational and tactical level of war. The likelihood that PSYOP messages willbe replayed to a much broader audience, including the American public, requires specific boundaries be established:
- (U) PSYOP should focus on support to military endeavors (exercises, deployments and operations) in non-permissive or semi permissive environments (i.e. when adversaries are part of the equation).
• (U) However, PSYOP forces and capabilities may be employed to support U.S. public diplomacy as part of approved theater security cooperation guidelines. In this case PSYOP personnel and equipment are not conducting a PSYOP mission, but rather are providing military support to public diplomacy. For example, PSYOP forces and capabilities could continue to support U.S. International Broadcasting Board of Governors operations such as RadiolTV Marti when so requested.

[truth2power]

4. Kicked for later.

[starroute]

5. I still want to know why they've gone after Barrett Brown the way they have

I suspect both he and Hastings were getting too close to something, but that probably even Brown himself doesn't know what.

[bobthedrummer]

6. Maybe it is 24/7 Psy-Ops + whatever else we, the people are being controlled by? Know what I mean?

n/t

[starroute]

7. But cui bono?

I can see wanting to conduct surveillance on the entire population in hopes of finding a needle or two in the haystack.

I can see conducting psyops against those you consider your enemies.

I can see ExxonMobil or the Koch brothers or the Chamber of Commerce wanting to protect their investments by denying global warming or pushing the TPP.

But why would official government entities conduct psyops against everyone 24/7? To what effect? And to whose benefit?

I am, however, oddly reminded of an article that showed up on Vox yesterday titled "Tech nerds are smart. But they can't seem to get their heads around politics." It's gotten a fair amount of attention -- but Paul Krugman, who liked it on the whole, raised the point that "Roberts never really explains why people who pride themselves on their ability to think things through slide into lazy cliches when it comes to politics. And that’s important: just lecturing Silicon Valley types on the need to get serious about politics won’t work if there are deeper reasons smart people get stupid when politics enters the picture."

Krugman seems to think it's something about geek culture. But I suspect it goes deeper.

I don't think it's "all of us" they're terrified of. I think it's the tech sector, which alone has the potential power to threaten the structure of things-as-they-are. I think the federal prosecutors' strange fantasies about Brown conspiring with Anonymous to overthrow the United States government are a reflection of their deepest fears.

And I can see a possibility that they've specifically been conducting long-term psyops against the tech sector. Encouraging their fantasies of themselves as near-godlike beings above the grubbiness of ordinary politics. Using various sorts of financial manipulation to ease out the innovators who might have dangerous ideas while promoting those who are either willing to play along or can be manipulated by illusions of their own superiority. And coming down with the hammer of the law on those who can't be bought or fooled or sidelined.

And, oh yeah, a certain amount of psyops against the rest of us so that we'll believe Julian Assange is a rapist and Edward Snowden is a traitor and all the rest. But the real focus is the tech people themselves -- and keeping them asleep and unaware of their own power.

[bobthedrummer]

8. West Point professor calls on US military to target legal critics of war on terror (Spencer Ackerman

8-29-15 The Guardian)
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/29/west-point-professor-target-legal-critics-war-on-terror

So who is this William C. Bradford? He's quite an IO fella himself. I can smell them from quite a distance.

"Professor Bradford" had enough juice to get contracted mercenaries that indulged their bloodlust, and other depraved appetites, off the hook in Iraq and elsewhere.
The Choice-of-Law Conundrum for Torts in Iraq (Roger Alford 2-23-12 Opinio Juris)
http://opiniojuris.org/2012/02/23/the-choice-of-law-conundrum-for-torts-in-iraq

The esteemed national security Professor has the support of people like Charles J. Dunlap Jr.

Casualties and Polls: Some Observations (Charles J. Dunlap Jr. 5-26-15 Just Security)
https://www.justsecurity.org/23219/casualties-polls-observations

I used to post about Mr. Dunlap's work when he was hooked-up as a Revolution in Military Affairs/RMA operative at places like the Air University at Maxwell, and various other US military think tanks. I'll repost what I consider to be an alltime favorite Dunlap work from 1992.

The Origins of the American Military Coup of 2012 (Charles J. Dunlap Jr. Strategic Studies Institute US Army pdf)
http://strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/parameters/Articles/2010winter/Dunlap_Jr.pdf

What are your real views about our Psy-Ops community, DU?

[bobthedrummer]

11. West Point law professor who called for attacks on "Islamic holy sites" resigns (Spencer Ackerman 8-

31-15 The Guardian)
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/31/west-point-law-professor-william-bradford-resigns

who will "replace" Dr. Bradford at West Point-Douglas Feith, John Yoo, Debra Lee Braginsky etc. ?

[MinM]

9. "U.S. propaganda intended to influence foreign audiences to be used on the domestic population."

More from Michael Hastings.


On a side note it was interesting that Michael Hastings briefly touches on the Phoenix Program in his posthumously released book The Last Magazine: A Novel ..

... Indeed, Phoenix was, among other things, an instrument of counter-terror - the psychological warfare tactic in which members of the VCI were brutally murdered along with their families or neighbors as a means of terrorizing the entire population into a state of submission. Such horrendous acts were, for propaganda purposes, often made to look as if they had been committed by the enemy.

"This book questions how Americans, who consider themselves a nation ruled by laws and an ethic of fair play, could create a program like Phoenix. By scrutinizing the program and the people who participated in it, and by employing the program as a symbol of the dark side of the human psyche, the author hopes to articulate the subtle ways in which the Vietnam War changed how Americans think about themselves. This book is about terror and its role in political warfare. It will show how, as successive American governments sink deeper and deeper into the vortex of covert operations - ostensibly to combat terrorism and Communist insurgencies - the American people gradually lose touch with the democratic ideals that once defined their national self-concept. This book asks what happens when Phoenix comes home to roost."

http://www.douglasvalentine.com/the_phoenix_program_11712.htm

[bobthedrummer]

10. Thanks, MinM! n/t

[bobthedrummer]

12. The CIA and the Media: 50 Facts the World Needs to Know (Prof. James F. Tracy 8-30-15 Constantine

Report)

"Since the end of World War Two the Central Intelligence Agency has been a major force in US and foreign news media..."
http://www.constantinereport.com/cia-media-50-facts-world-needs-know

What are some of today's IO's DU??

[Octafish]

13. It used to be against the law, directing propaganda against the American people.

U.S. Repeals Propaganda Ban, Spreads Government-Made News to Americans

BY JOHN HUDSON
Foreign Policy - The Cable, JULY 14, 2013

For decades, a so-called anti-propaganda law prevented the U.S. government’s mammoth broadcasting arm from delivering programming to American audiences. But on July 2, that came silently to an end with the implementation of a new reform passed in January. The result: an unleashing of thousands of hours per week of government-funded radio and TV programs for domestic U.S. consumption in a reform initially criticized as a green light for U.S. domestic propaganda efforts. So what just happened?

SNIP...

A former U.S. government source with knowledge of the BBG says the organization is no Pravda, but it does advance U.S. interests in more subtle ways. In Somalia, for instance, VOA serves as counterprogramming to outlets peddling anti-American or jihadist sentiment. "Somalis have three options for news," the source said, "word of mouth, al-Shabab, or VOA Somalia."

This partially explains the push to allow BBG broadcasts on local radio stations in the United States. The agency wants to reach diaspora communities, such as St. Paul, Minnesota’s significant Somali expat community. "Those people can get al-Shabab, they can get Russia Today, but they couldn’t get access to their taxpayer-funded news sources like VOA Somalia," the source said. "It was silly."

Lynne added that the reform has a transparency benefit as well. "Now Americans will be able to know more about what they are paying for with their tax dollars — greater transparency is a win-win for all involved," she said. And so with that we have the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012, which passed as part of the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act, and went into effect this month.

But if anyone needed a reminder of the dangers of domestic propaganda efforts, the past 12 months provided ample reasons. Last year, two USA Today journalists were ensnared in a propaganda campaign after reporting about millions of dollars in back taxes owed by the Pentagon’s top propaganda contractor in Afghanistan. Eventually, one of the co-owners of the firm confessed to creating phony websites and Twitter accounts to smear the journalists anonymously. Additionally, just this month, the Washington Post exposed a counter-propaganda program by the Pentagon that recommended posting comments on a U.S. website run by a Somali expat with readers opposing al-Shabab. "Today, the military is more focused on manipulating news and commentary on the Internet, especially social media, by posting material and images without necessarily claiming ownership," reported the Post.

But for BBG officials, the references to Pentagon propaganda efforts are nauseating, particularly because the Smith-Mundt Act never had anything to do with regulating the Pentagon, a fact that was misunderstood in media reports in the run-up to the passage of new Smith-Mundt reforms in January.

CONTINUED...

http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/07/14/u-s-repeals-propaganda-ban-spreads-government-made-news-to-americans/

Smith-Mundt Act. History.

[Mc Mike]

14. Recced. Thanks, bob. nt.

[bobthedrummer]

15. DOD's Inspector General Investigating Administration Propaganda Again (Marcy Wheeler 9-2-2015

Expose Facts)

"In the past few weeks, there have been several reports that senior intelligence officials were skewing the intelligence on how (un)successful the military campaign against ISIS has been."
https://exposefacts.org/dods-inspector-general-investigating-administration-propaganda-again

I hear the screams of those grieving all over the world that Psy-Ops can never quiet.

[bobthedrummer]

16. "Although hundreds of millions of U.S. taxpayers dollars have been spent on information operations,

the hand of the United States is rarely apparent. And that's how the Pentagon wants it."

U.S. "info ops" programs dubious, costly (Tom Vanden Brook & Ray Locker 2-29-12 USA Today)
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/military/story/2012-02-29/afghanistan-iraq-military-information-operations-usa-today-investigation/53295472/1

Information Operations Related Documents (DoD)
http://information-retrieval.info/docs/DoD-IO.html

AP, RCFP Sue Over FBI's Impersonation of Journalists, and Much More (Lauren Harper 9-3-15 The National Security Archive/Unredacted)
https://nsarchive.wordpress.com/2015/09/03/ap-rcfp-sue-over-fbis-impersonation-of-journalists-and-much-more-frinformsum-932015

Why are some IO's called Infomercials LOL!!!

[Judi Lynn]

17. Much for us to learn in this thread. Thank you. We need to know. n/t

[bobthedrummer]

18. Subject: Intelligence Oversight Policy Guidance incorporating Change 6 effective September 10, 2015

(DoD pdf via cryptome)

https://cryptome.org/dodi/2015/DTM-08-011.pdf

I had some questions about who the current Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Oversight/ATSD(IO) is (do you know?)-some of the more recent ones were both named Mike
Michael Goodroe
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/michael-goodroe/35/8b/145

Michael Decker
http://www.rand.org/about/people/d/decker_michael_h.html

Who cares about this besides me????

[bobthedrummer]

19. Ray McGovern and VIPS warned US about the takeover/coup of the US intelligence community by the

"crazies". There is no oversight nor rule of law nor accountability to we, the people at all as a result of the military takeover and expansion of what the CIA used to do-just look at the BUSH/CHENEY/RUMSFELD et. al. DoD Intelligence "leaders" and their career paths. I'm talking about Stephen A. Cambone and his deputy Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin for starters.

Note where they went after the DoD-no one could make this up, although Margaret Atwood came close imo.

Stephen A. Cambone (Source Watch profile)
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Stephen_A._Cambone

Cambone's Right Web entry is more recent
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Cambone_Stephen

Stevie went private after the DoD
QinetiQ Goes Kinetic: Top Rumsfeld Aide Wins Contracts From Spy Office He Set Up (Tom Shorrock 1-15-08 Corp Watch)
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14898

Guess who made huge "progress" in the institution of "target lists" and torture policies of HOMELAND Inc?
Profile: Strategic Support Branch or Project Icon (History Commons entry)
http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=strategic_support_branch_or_project_icon

How are those target lists processed today?
Outsourcing the Kill Chain: Eleven Drone Contractors Revealed (Pratap Chatterjee 8-3-15 Corp Watch)
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=16045

Remember Cambone's deputy former Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin?

William G. Boykin (Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_G._Boykin

The General is Executive VP of The Family Research Council
http://www.frc.org/jerryboykin

I ask again, who cares about this besides me? Add to this thread.

[bobthedrummer]

20. In 2003 Abu Ghraib Cell Blocks 1-A & 1-B were "controlled by two intelligence officers who reported

directly to Sanchez's headquarters in Baghdad-Colonel Thomas M. Pappas and Lieutenant Colonel Steve Jordan." (p.137 A Question of Torture Alfred McCoy)

Col. Pappas was the CO of the 205th Military Intelligence Brigade, Gen. Ricardo Sanchez's intelligence chief was Gen. Barbara Fast. This is all information operation "history" people. Who cares?

These "military intelligence" people that took over the CIA and expanded from there are some of the stupidest fuckheads ever conceived imo. It's much worse today than it was 12 years ago, just look at your own neighborhood watch groups, the paramilitarized police, the "special intelligence" units, etc.

There is a thriving business in "keeping US safe", which is NEWSPEAK for all sorts of undemocratic police state crap-often "taught" by and contracted out to many of the "professionals" that came out of the BUSH/CHENEY/RUMSFELD "kill chain" imo. There remain some articles from the past that are quite informative as to how we, the people got to this point in the history of the United States of America, for those of US that do care. In no particular manner check these links out-and add to this thread.

Rumsfeld's Enforcer (Jeffrey St. Claire 2-7-06 Counterpunch)
http://www.counterpunch.org/2006/02/07/rumsfeld-s-enforcer

Intelligence, Inc. Military Interrogation Training Gets Privatized (Pratap Chatterjee 3-7-05 Corp Watch)
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11940

Who is John Israel? (Justin Raimondo 5-13-04 AntiWar)
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2004/05/12/who-is-john-israel

U.S. Medical Personnel and Interrogations: What Do We Know? What Don't We Know? (Sheri Fink 4-9-09 ProPublica)
http://www.propublica.org/article/medical-personnel-and-interrogations-what-do-we-know-what-dont-we-know-409

Thomas M. Pappas (Source Watch profile)
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Thomas_M._Pappas

It's time for you to add to this thread DU. Kick.

[bobthedrummer]

21. Let's take an open sourced look at an Agency "retiree"-Deputy Director Michael J. Morell-lots of IO

around him.
Michael Morell (Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Morell

The Rise of Another CIA Yes Man (Ray McGovern 8-30-11 CounterPunch)
http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/08/30/the-rise-of-another-cia-yes-man

George W. Bush's CIA Briefer: Bush and Cheney Falsely Presented WMD Intelligence to Public (David Corn 5-19-15 MotherJones)
http://motherjones.com/politics/2015/05/michael-morell-bush-cheney-iraq-war

Former CIA official takes aim at politicians (Jake Tapper 5-12-15 CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/11/politics/michael-morrell-book-cia-obama-cheney

Perception management ISN"T the TRUTH-and it will never SET YOU FREE.

There's quite a history to all these domestic PsyOps now being operated from the control rooms of the MSM.

How the CIA Played Dirty Tricks With Our Culture (Laurence Zuckerman 3-18-2000 NYT CommonDreams repost)
http://commondreams.org/headlines/031800-02.htm

Add your own perceptions to this thread, people.

[bobthedrummer]

22. Lady Gaga to be Billboard's Woman of the Year, She was the cover of Rolling Stone when Mr. Hastings

article on Stanley McChrystal "The Runaway General" was published June 22, 2010.

Today, fwiw, the Ash Carter DoD is running another IO about US troops being in Afghanistan beyond 2016-and there is a hell of a lot of urban war going on there as I post this.

What are your thoughts on all this DU?

Kick for participation.

[bobthedrummer]

23. A kick + a link to Open the Government another website dedicated to getting the truth to US.

Open The Government
http://www.openthegovernment.org

BTW, since when is the use of an AC130 Spectre on a hospital not a war crime?

[bobthedrummer]

24. Tonight's the night for Las Vegas "debate" Psy-Ops, isn't it? n/t

[bobthedrummer]

25. Feds Arrest Fox News Commentator, Allege He Lied About CIA Past (Ryan J. Reilly 10-15-15 HuffPost)

http://huffingtonpost.com/entry/wayne-simmons-arrest-cia_561fd787e4b028dd7ea6fd43?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592

[bbgrunt]

26. thanks for the thread, Bobtd, bookmarking for

all the links and info--for when I'm ready to look into the abyss again. Sometimes it's just all too much to handle.

[KoKo]

27. I think using "Psy Ops" on U.S. Senators should constitute some kind of Crime......

When will we ever have investigations of this? So much Corruption and Manipulation....when will we ever have any investigation?

Thanks "Bob" for keeping on this! We need to get back into exposing this and creating new movements during this Election Year to put a halt on the MIC who is draining resources from all of our Social Programs to keep the Perpetual Wars Going to (frankly) cover their Butts and Fill their Wallets for Profit of their own Lifestyles.

A Snip:

Report: Army targeted U.S. senators with psy-ops

Updated 11:57 a.m. CT, Thurs., Feb. 24, 2011

The U.S. army reportedly deployed a specialized "psychological operations" team to help convince American legislators to boost funding and troop numbers for the Afghan war.Full story

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/34558116/?q=William

[bobthedrummer]

28. A kick against IO and for the truth n/t

[bobthedrummer]

29. US/NATO Embrace Psy-ops and Info-War (Dan North 9-2-15 Consortium News)

https://consortiumnews.com/2015/09/02/usnato-embrace-psy-ops-and-info-war

[bobthedrummer]

30. Veterans Day kick

[bobthedrummer]

31. A kick in memory of Gary Caradori, who died with his son when his airplane blew up. He was the lead

investigator in the Franklin Credit Union/Larry King scandal. Here are a couple of related posts in memory of his loss to US.
Gary Caradori page (Crimes of Empire)
http://crimesofempire.com/tag/gary-caradori

Still Evil After All These Years (Charles M. Young 9-10-12 CounterPunch)
http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/09/10/still-evil-after-all-these-years

[bobthedrummer]

35. There is a separate Franklin cover-up/blowback thread for those interested in pursuing truth-not IO

Chapter 21-Omaha
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016139460

[Blue_Tires]

32. Why don't you tell us your views first?

[bobthedrummer]

33. My perspectives as to what-I don't understand what you mean, Blue_Tires. #1, I love the truth. n/t

[bobthedrummer]

34. OBEY...n/t

[bobthedrummer]

36. A transparency kick: Leaked Documents That Were Not Attributed to Snowden (12-23-15 Top Level Tele-

communications)
http://electrospaces.blogspot.com/2015/12/leaked-documents-that-were-not.html

[bobthedrummer]

37. It is the end of the first month of 2016 and domestic IO continues n/t

[bobthedrummer]

38. A really important Information Operation/IO education kick-SUPER TUESDAY