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global1

(25,253 posts)
Sun Feb 26, 2017, 02:47 AM Feb 2017

Does Anyone Here Remember That Rumsfeld In The Bush Administration Wanted To Push Misinformation....

I seem to recall a controversy back in BushCo's time that - I believe it was Rumsfeld wanted to create a Department that would put out misinformation or probably what we now call 'fake news'.

Do you think that 45Pee has picked up on that concept and is pushing it today?

I need a refresher as to what this Dept was called? Did it actually go into effect back in BushCo's days?

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Does Anyone Here Remember That Rumsfeld In The Bush Administration Wanted To Push Misinformation.... (Original Post) global1 Feb 2017 OP
I vaguely remember and found this BlueStateLib Feb 2017 #1
Rumsfeld is an oxycontin-moron shadowmayor Feb 2017 #2
North, East, South and West of Tikrit and Baghdad... Thor_MN Feb 2017 #4
Say what you will about Rinpoche Rumsfled Warren DeMontague Feb 2017 #3

shadowmayor

(1,325 posts)
2. Rumsfeld is an oxycontin-moron
Sun Feb 26, 2017, 03:57 AM
Feb 2017

Everything that asshole says is misinformation. And why bother with another "alt" news unit when you have Fox Noise and the NY Times licking your ass? More proof of just how stupid and incompetent Rumsfeld and the whole Bush criminal crew really were.

 

Thor_MN

(11,843 posts)
4. North, East, South and West of Tikrit and Baghdad...
Sun Feb 26, 2017, 10:40 AM
Feb 2017

Rummy was certain that Iraq's WMD were there...

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
3. Say what you will about Rinpoche Rumsfled
Sun Feb 26, 2017, 06:49 AM
Feb 2017

This shit is fucking DEEP, man.

There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know.


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