Pentagon Propaganda May Have Been Illegal

[maddezmom]

Pentagon Propaganda May Have Been Illegal
It was saying, "We need to stick our hands up your back and move your mouth for you,” Robert S. Bevelacqua, a retired Green Beret and former Fox News analyst told the NY Times.... did not share any misgivings with the American public.The Bush Administration does not have clean hands when it comes to propaganda, so this latest news about the Pentagon's manipulation of Iraq war news by spoon-feeding talking points to military officers who in turn regurgitate on TV "news" should be no real surprise.

The fact that many said officers also had a vested monetary interest in armaments and other war contracts should raise more than eyebrows. But it won't, at least not with this White House and this press corps.

A reminder: the 1948 Smith-Mundt Act prohibits domestic dissemination of US propaganda. What you and I may think of as propaganda may not be the law, however.

That law seems to have acted only as a speedbump for the Bush/Rumsfeld Pentagon. Rolling Stone reported in 2005 that in October 2003:

more:http://uspolitics.about.com/b/2008/04/21/pentagon-propaganda-may-have-been-illegal.htm

[Judi Lynn]

1. This is an article to bookmark. We need MORE articles like this one.

What a shame so few people don't realize what has been happening, yet. This country needs to WAKE UP, NOW.

What a shame, what an abuse of authority. It IS a crime.

Thanks.