NYT, Pentagon & Bogus News: All is Denied

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/05/politics/05STRA.html?ex=1073365200&en=85c4b71636b706fa&ei=5070
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December 5, 2003
Pentagon and Bogus News: All Is Denied

By ERIC SCHMITT

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 ? Early last year Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld disbanded the Pentagon's Office of Strategic Influence after it became known that the office was considering plans to provide false news items to unwitting foreign journalists to influence policymakers and public sentiment abroad.
But a couple of months ago, the Pentagon quietly awarded a $300,000 contract to SAIC, a major defense consultant, to study how the Defense Department could design an "effective strategic influence" campaign to combat global terror, according to an internal Pentagon document.

Sound familiar?

Senior Pentagon officials said Thursday that they were caught unawares by the contract and insisted its language was a "poor choice of words" by a low-level staffer. They said the work did not reflect any backdoor effort to resurrect the discredited office and was merely a study to understand Al Qaeda better and find ways to combat it.

"We are not recreating that office," said Thomas O'Connell, the assistant secretary of defense for special operations and low-intensity conflict, the policy arm of the Pentagon that deals with the military's most secretive operators and whose staff wrote the document.
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"poor choice of words" = "truth"

Man, you got that right. Is there a sardonic, "we're all going to hell in a handbasket" version of LOL? Because that's what I needed. :)

I'm of the opinion they are because the bushshite admin never gives proof of their claims regarding terrorists or terrorist attacks, they just ask us to believe them and the media lets them get away with it and in most cases are obviously complicit, ie faux, msnbc and for the most part cnn. Since I first hear rummy propose this program and then deny it, I haven't believed one word out of anyone in the bushshite admin.

we've lost our media and the sheeple follow.

One only has to "plant" the story through an unsespecting media outlet.

Use a lower level functionary to whisper a story "in deep background" and point an honest reporter in the direction of the "facts." has been done before, is being done today and will be done in the future. Has any one ever heard of Ollie North and "Newsweek?"

us pesky people will want to know where that trillion plus missing dollars went:

The Whore York Times reporting about bogus news.