How The Pentagon Propaganda Machine Worked: ‘Are you telling me to tell a lie???? Surely not!

[kpete]

How The Pentagon Propaganda Machine Worked: ‘are you telling me to tell a lie???? surely not! ;)’

The Pentagon document dump on its propaganda program reveals this interesting insight as to how the Defense Department worked with conservative allies to manipulate the media.

In a Feb. 16, 2006 email exchange, Pentagon media staffers discussed coordinating with the Heritage Foundation to identify someone to speak about detainee treatment at Gitmo. An anonymous employee suggested retired Army Sergeant Major Steve Short because “he seems to be on message and very articulate.”

Pentagon public affairs official Allison Barber responded by warning that the DoD could not officially “endorse” one particular speaker over another. “Important to remember that heritage can invite anyone to present and that we don’t really have an opinion on anyone,” Barber wrote.

The anonymous author then suggested he or she might lie and pretend not to have ever heard of Short:




Just two weeks after this email exchange — on March 1, 2006 — Short was invited by Heritage to participate on a panel entitled “GITMO: What You Read Vs. What You See.” And he was indeed “on message”:

more at:
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/13/pentagon-lie-steve-short/

[magellan]

1. Government of the people, by the people, for the people

...manipulated and controlled by unabashed LIARS.

k&r

[FiveGoodMen]

2. and supported every step of the way by 60 million MORANS!