Army Illegally Deployed Psy-Ops on Senators to Increase Funding and Troops

[TalkingDog]

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/another-runaway-general-army-deploys-psy-ops-on-u-s-senators-20110223

The U.S. Army illegally ordered a team of soldiers specializing in "psychological operations" to manipulate visiting American senators into providing more troops and funding for the war, Rolling Stone has learned – and when an officer tried to stop the operation, he was railroaded by military investigators.

The orders came from the command of Lt. Gen. William Caldwell, a three-star general in charge of training Afghan troops – the linchpin of U.S. strategy in the war. Over a four-month period last year, a military cell devoted to what is known as "information operations" at Camp Eggers in Kabul was repeatedly pressured to target visiting senators and other VIPs who met with Caldwell. When the unit resisted the order, arguing that it violated U.S. laws prohibiting the use of propaganda against American citizens, it was subjected to a campaign of retaliation.

"My job in psy-ops is to play with people’s heads, to get the enemy to behave the way we want them to behave," says Lt. Colonel Michael Holmes, the leader of the IO unit, who received an official reprimand after bucking orders. "I’m prohibited from doing that to our own people. When you ask me to try to use these skills on senators and congressman, you’re crossing a line."

[LaurenG]

1. Good grief. It looks like we might still have real patriots out there.

I can't say I'm surprised that we are being manipulated by our overlords.

[Octafish]

5. Lt. Col. Holmes has integrity.

It's a quality evidently lacking in the general ranks.

[spanone]

2. 'army dupes congressional leaders into throwing away more money and killing more american soldiers'

this should be the headline

[randr]

3. Can we assume the Army used psy-ops on Obama?

[glinda]

10. I have been concerned about this for a long time. Drugging also.

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. Doesn't this make Fox illegal? laws prohibiting the use of propaganda against American citizens?

I have forced myself to sit thru a couple of Becks's blatherings and he is pure propaganda.

The article does point out how heavily invested the MIC is, tho , doesn't it?

[no_hypocrisy]

6. What does Al Franken have to say about this?

[siligut]

7. Not the first time and it won't be the last

This is coming out because we have an atmosphere of whistle blowing now, that it may be having some effect. This is not new, this is just coming out from behind the curtain. If only we knew of all of it. I can hear Jack Nicholson now: "You can't handle the truth."

[ensho]

8. kick

nt

[BanzaiBonnie]

9. Military/Industrial complex

looking out for their own interests. All the time, everywhere.


My mother always told me to follow the money.

[glinda]

11. They may be the wizard behind the curtains along with big corps.

[Gold Metal Flake]

12. I wonder if the methods include creating "compromising situations" & blackmail.

Oops. The Senator has been affected by some mind-altering substance introduced unknown to him/her. Oops, the Senator has been subsequently photographed in the nude with some underaged prostitute(s). Fortunately, the Senator, once recovered and presented with the photographic/hi-def video evidence of the unfortunate incident, has proven to be a friend of the Army back in Washington so as long as that is maintained the Senator's privacy shall be maintained.

[Parker CA]

13. Kick and Rec!

[dkofos]

14. Just the kind of news we need to hear about before we give the war machine

$750 BILLION

And about that training program that's been going on for 10+ years.
What do you do, train them one at a time??