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Originally Posted by irateplatypus
i'm not quite sure what you're getting at when you say "multitude of scandals over the last few years". are you referring to the psy-ops listed in the article? do you really think planting US-favorable info is a scandal? if so, how in the world can you separate the described instances from other psy-op methods? if you condemn those uses of this millenia-old strategic tool, how can you avoid advocating the removal of it from our military's arsenal altogether?
even considering all that, each instance (it seemed to me) was directed at foreign audiences... i don't think you can justify linking it to fears of domestic propaganda with the given information.
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Rummy said it better than I can.
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information intended for foreign audiences, including public diplomacy and PSYOP, increasingly is consumed by our domestic audience and vice-versa
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http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/...ps_roadmap.pdf
The Smith-Mundt Act of 1948, amended in 1972 and 1998,
prohibits the U.S. government from propagandizing the American public with information and psychological operations directed at foreign audiences; and several presidential directives, including Reagan's NSD-77 in 1983. By it's very definition, it's illegal. If propoganda directed at other governments, organizations, or people can reach the American people (like information available on the interweb), it is illegal. Whether my fears of corruption at the DoD are founded or not, it is certianally illegal.
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