Officer Says Army Slimed Him for Refusing to Conduct Illegal Psy-Ops on Congressmen

[douglas9]

WASHINGTON (CN) - The Army refuses to release information on its investigation into whether a three-star general conducted psychological operations on members of Congress during their visits to Afghanistan, according to the two Army information operations officers at the center of the controversy.
Michael Holmes, the officer who says he refused orders to conduct Psy-Ops on American officials, and Laurel Levine filed a federal FOIA complaint, saying the Army and the U.S. Army Central Command refused to release the records.
Holmes and Levine says the Army investigation "also covered allegations of whistleblower retaliation conducted against the plaintiffs for challenging unlawful orders."
"Rolling Stone" magazine published an article in February this year "alleging that the U.S. Army illegally ordered a team of soldiers specializing in 'psychological operations' to 'manipulate visiting American senators into providing more troops and funding for the war ... and when an officer tried to stop the operation, he was railroaded by military investigators,'" according to the complaint.

http://www.courthousenews.com/2011/07/19/38259.htm

[postulater]

1. This is more important than the Murdoch Fux scandal.

These guys got guns.

[Scuba]

2. Actually, no. This problem can be easily resolved through the chain of command....

...while RW spying on the rest of the world is a tangled ball of silk that will never be fully unwound. And it is the manipulation of our media / news that fails in their Constitutional obligation to be a "free" press.

[postulater]

3. Maybe this particular incident is not all that important overall but

the chain of command seems to fail when it comes to investigating things our government does. There seem to be too many things that noone gets punished for and not all military either. I'm just thinking of the bankers and Cheney/Bush.

[Sal Minella]

4. Chain of command failure = Colin Powell in front of the United Nations

performing as ordered by his CiC.