Another smoking gun...

[Doodlesweaver]

This is from a thread over at Common Ground Common Sense's forum.

http://www.moonofalabama.org/2005/06/blowback.html#comments

Lincoln Group of Washington, DC is being awarded an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract, with a potential maximum value of $100,000,000, for media approach planning, prototype product development, commercial quality product development, product distribution and dissemination, and media effects analysis for the Joint Psychological Operations Support element and other government agencies. The work will be performed CONUS and OCONUS and task orders may be issued from June 7, 2005 - June 6, 2010. This contract was awarded on a competitive basis pursuant to FAR 6.102. The contract number is H92222-05-D-1010.

CONUS stands for Continental United States.

[Selteri]

1. Many more smoking guns...

and we'll have a complete firing squad.

[11 Bravo]

2. How long do you think it will take Dems

to arrange that firing squad into a circle and start blowing the shit out of each other?

[Doodlesweaver]

3. this isn't a circular firing squad

This is a corporation that might receive up to $ 100,000,000 in taxpayer money to do CONUS psyops. That's psyops within the continental US. That's illegal. And this corporation also assists carefully selected GOP candidates. Does it get smokier than this?

[CTD]

4. This really is less than it looks like

I put on my tin foil hat as quickly as most of you all, but this one really is a non-starter. You guys are reading into this what you want to. But it's not what it actually means.

I am very familiar with gov't contracting. These are the facts:

The gov't uses contractors to prepare psyops materials. Those materials are prepared in the US. By prepared, I mean developed and manufactured/printed. They are then distributed in the target theatre. In gov't contracting terms, this contract was awarded to a US company which will prepare the items here and possibly do some training or other prep work outside of the US.

CONUS = continental US
OCONUS = Outside of continental US

Additionally, it is an IDIQ contract (indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity) which means that individual task orders have not yet been awarded to the contractor and each task order has to be individually competed. This contractor actually received no work or money as a result of this award. And the amount of work they will actually receive will be much smaller than the $10M ceiling value.

There really isn't anything unusual in this. And it's definitely not what you all are making it out to be.

[Doodlesweaver]

5. Methinks

Methinks he doth protest too much.

[CTD]

6. Whatever.

Go ahead, shoot the messenger.

Trust me on this. Anyone who knows anything about gov't contracting knows that this is nothing at all unusual.

It certainly does not mean "domestic psyops".

Focus on what's important - like the DSM and voting irregularities.

But going off on this as if it were what you want to think it is just makes us all look foolish and ignorant.