Was Judy planting WMD misinformation in the Times in favor of War in Iraq, in a DoD effort to deceive and confound the enemy...The "enemy" being YOU and ME and Joe Sixpack?
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"Office of Strategic Influence"
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Pentagon has established a new Office of Strategic Influence to market America's war on terrorism outside the United States, a Defense Department official said Tuesday.
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/US/02/19/gen.strategic.influence/********************
The Office of Strategic Influence Is Gone, But Are Its Programs In Place?
11/27/02
The Federation of American Scientists has pointed to a startling revelation by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld that mainstream media have missed: In remarks during a recent press briefing, Rumsfeld suggested that though the controversial Office of Strategic Influence (OSI) no longer exists in name, its programs are still being carried out
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1859***********************
Defense Department News Briefing
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld
February 26, 2002
(excerpts on Office of Strategic Influence)
Q: Mr. Secretary, the president said yesterday that you and he were reading from virtually the same page, paraphrasing, on the Pentagon's controversial new Office of Strategic Information. He said that the American people -- and, we assume, the world -- will not be misled on U.S. strategic policy. Are you going to kill that office?
Rumsfeld: I was -- I met with Undersecretary Doug Feith this morning, and he indicated to me that he has decided to close down the Office of Strategic Influence.
Q: Why? Could you tell us why?
Rumsfeld: Well, you know, there have been so many stories about this office, and commentary, some portion of which has contained inaccurate speculation and assertions that the office would -- could become involved in activities that the department has in fact not done, is not doing, and would not condone. I guess notwithstanding the fact that much of the thrust of the criticism and the cartoons and the editorial comment has been off the mark, the office has clearly been so damaged that it's unclear to me -- it's pretty clear to me that it could not function effectively. So it's being closed down. More...
http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/2002/02/dod022602.html************************
Office of Strategic Influence
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
The Office of Strategic Influence, or OSI, was a department set up in the United States Department of Defense in late 2001 or early 2002, to support the War on Terrorism through psychological operations in targeted countries. MORE...
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Office of Strategic Influence
From SourceWatch
The Office of Strategic Influence (OSI) was "established shortly after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a response to concerns in the administration that the United States was losing public support overseas for its war on terrorism, particularly in Islamic countries." public relations campaigns.
In a February 19, 2002, New York Times article, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld let it be known that, while he was "broadly supportive of the new office," he had "not approved its specific proposals and
asked the Pentagon's top lawyer, William J. Haynes, to review them."
OSI, headed by Air Force Brig. Gen. Simon P. Worden, began "circulating classified proposals calling for aggressive campaigns that use not only the foreign media and the Internet, but also covert operations." Worden envisioned "a broad mission ranging from 'black' campaigns that use disinformation and other covert activities to 'white' public affairs that rely on truthful news releases," according to Pentagon officials. "'It goes from the blackest of black programs to the whitest of white,' a senior Pentagon official said."
The Pentagon's announcement, including that the OSI planned "to provide news items, possibly even false ones, to foreign media organizations as part of a new effort to influence public sentiment and policy makers in both friendly and unfriendly countries," gave immediate rise to negative publicity.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/wiki.phtml?title=Office_of_Strategic_Influence
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"to support the War on Terrorism through psychological operations in targeted countries."
Was one of the target countries the US? Did Ms Miller and the Times work for Rumbo and Cheney to try and sell a war by spreading fake information?
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