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Defense News ^ | 12/5/03

[pabianice]

Pentagon And Bogus News: All Is Denied

[New York Times, December 5, 2003]

Secretary Rumsfeld disbanded the Pentagon’s Office of Strategic Influence last year after it became known that the office was thinking about providing false news items to unwitting foreign journalists. A couple of months ago, however, the Pentagon quietly awarded a $300,000 contract to SAIC, a major defense consultant, to study how DoD could design an “effective strategic influence” campaign to combat global terror. Pentagon officials denied the SAIC deal is any kind of backdoor effort to resurrect the discredited office and is merely a study to understand al Qaeda better and find ways to combat it.

[pabianice]

The New York Times -- arguably the most corrupt, biased, anti-American, and dishonest newspaper in the West -- is complaining about the Pentagon's attempts to side-step their distortions and lies.

[martin_fierro]

Because as we all know, the NYT never lies.

[N. Theknow]

... unwitting foreign journalists...

Isn't that redundant?

[Naspino]

I don't see the problem. It would be have been in the spirit of most journalism. The government could have just sent out a press bulletin to the duped journalists later with the correction on page 28C in small print.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

with the correction on page 28C in small print.

The government has control over when and where the correction is placed in the paper?!

[Joe Bonforte]

Gosh, I didn't realize the Pentagon funded a rock band:

The Office of Strategic Influence.

[hang 'em]

One story you'll never see in the Times:

A squad of Marines were driving up the highway between Basra and Baghdad. They came upon an Iraqi soldier badly injured and unconscious.

Nearby, on the opposite side of the road, was an American Marine in a similar but less serious state. The Marine was conscious and alert.

As first aid was given to both men, the Marine was asked what had happened. The Marine reported; "I was heavily armed and moving north along the highway. Coming south was a heavily armed Iraqi soldier."

"What happened then?" the corpsman asked.

"I yelled to him that Saddam Hussein was a miserable a$$hole, and he yelled back: 'Tom Daschle, Ted Kennedy and Bill Clinton are miserable a$$holes'.

"We were standing there shaking hands when a truck hit us."

[KillTime]

Wahoo! SAIC employee bump.