when you say "shadow government" i assume that you are not simply making a curious plato joke (via "the laws"---the "night conspiracy" if i remember) but are talking about the residumm of the national security state? maybe the questions of paranoia could be reduced if you were more specific......
i would love to see the "information operations roadmap"....i really would....
edit: searching things is sometimes helpful.
this site is something of a small motherlode in this regard.
http://www.iwar.org.uk/iwar/
the main documents are downloads.
i am not sure if any of them are the "roadmap" referenced above, but this will nonetheless give a good overview of the assumptions that shape how "information superiority" is understood in dod-land....what is a bit curious is the extent to which this particular understanding of "opinion management"--worked out as a function of thinking information as a seperate military theater of operations---could be linked to questions like selling an obviously bankrupt educational policy.
unless the bush administration understands everything it does in military terms.....