The Homeland Security Department wants to hire reporters who won't report

Wanted: Journalists Who Can Keep Quiet
Posted on Wednesday, February 23
http://www.intl-news.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=693

The Bush administration is hiring more reporters. Only this time, it wants them to keep quiet.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) last week placed a help-wanted listing on journalismjobs.com, an employment website. The department sought reporters to participate in TOPOFF 3, a biennial exercise directed by Congress that simulates a terrorist attack on the United States.

Sounds like they want to learn how best to counter news reports that may reflect negatively on their efforts to 'protect' us.

The posting, which has since been taken off the site, sought applicants who can write copy for an online news service “reporting events within the exercise for an audience of exercise participants.”

>>>>Instead of acting as advocates, the reporters would be prohibited from relaying the results of the exercise outside of the “virtual news network” that is part of the training exercise.

“You must NOT be currently employed by a real news organization and will be required to sign a nondisclosure agreement barring you from writing about this in the future,” the job posting stated.

Is this how Gannon (Guckert) got his job?

FOX, CNN, CBS, CNN, ABC, MSNBC employees are all elligible to apply since none of them are "real news organizations"

or possibly a sting. I can just imagine one of the 'reporters' writing a really good analysis and ending up under investigation in Guantanamo.

What else can we make of this? Seems like another 'Poindexter', DARPA type tactic.