Leaked ICE memo details media strategy to counter citizen activist groups

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http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0429/leaked-ice-memo-details-media-strategy-counter-citizen-activists/

By Stephen C. Webster
Thursday, April 29th, 2010 -- 7:38 pm

Call this a crash course in how federal agencies use the press to advance their own advocacy.

A memo leaked from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency is has immigration reform activist groups up in arms, calling the government's plans to argue on behalf of its programs "unbelievable" and an "an aggressive strategy for spin and deception."

The document details how the agency was to respond amid a host of planned protests against the so-called "Secure Communities" program. It reveals that ICE targeted major media in eight cities where activists planned their rallies, securing space in publications like The Atlanta Journal Constitution, The Maimi Herald, The Washington Examiner and others.

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1. ICE is a rogue agency still packed to the gills with Bush/Cheney

operatives. They burrowed well down into this one.