Pentagon kills Rumsfeld 'propaganda' unit

[kpete]

Pentagon kills Rumsfeld 'propaganda'unit
Michael Roston
Published: Friday July 13, 2007

Current Defense Secretary Robert Gates has scrapped an institution established by his predecessor Donald Rumsfeld to rapidly counter messages in the press that the Pentagon considered negative, according to a report in Friday's Washington Times.

"Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has shut down a rapid-response press operation run out of the Pentagon speechwriting shop because it is not suited to his style of press relations," reports Bill Gertz in his weekly 'Inside the Ring' column.

A former Pentagon official explained to Gertz how the rapid-response unit worked.

"The unit would monitor U.S. and foreign press reports and highlight stories that were 'missing key elements,'" he writes. "It then would quickly send information to congressional and press contacts 'so people could see the rest of the story.'"

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Pentagon_kills_Rumsfeld_propaganda_unit_0713.html

[spanone]

1. They'll be hiding lots of their illegal shit as 2008 looms closer.

[RufusEarl]

2. Good for Gates!! for killing this propaganda machine!