Reply #56: Disinformation is part of their ''Perspective Management'' toolkit.

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Karl Rove practices the oldest trade in the media: Be the first to get your point out, especially when it's a lie about your opponent. That makes it 20-times harder (my guesstimate) to replace with the truth, later.

The thing about Blackwater / Xe / Prince is oversight and accountability. Outsourcing and privatizing spy wet work and the rest means that they can do pretty much what they want, and We the People who pay for it won't be the wiser. Secret spyworks also mean the main beneficiaries are the insiders, from Wall Street to Pipelineistan. It's Oh-So-Social all over again, without the hassles of reporting to anybody who's not getting a piece of the action.