No comments - No prisoners

In James Bamford's Rolling Stone article, he tells us both about how the Administration's private PR firms manufactured intel prior to the war, and also these interesting things about the Renford Group that have implications for our own trolletariat. First, they troll internet forums. Second, they plant false information on the internet and in other media. Third, they monitor stories before they reach the internet, so that they may be neutralized before and as they are actually posted:

The company was contracted to monitor Internet chat rooms in both English and Arabic -- and "participate in these chat rooms when/if tasked."

According to a secret Pentagon report personally approved by Rumsfeld in October 2003 and obtained by Rolling Stone, the Strategic Command is authorized to engage in "military deception" -- defined as "presenting false information, images or statements." The seventy-four-page document, titled "Information Operations Roadmap," also calls for psychological operations to be launched over radio, television, cell phones and "emerging technologies" such as the Internet. In addition to being classified secret, the road map is also stamped noforn, meaning it cannot be shared even with our allies.

A key weapon, according to the documents, was Rendon's "proprietary state-of-the-art news-wire collection system called 'Livewire,' which takes real-time news-wire reports, as they are filed, before they are on the Internet, before CNN can read them on the air and twenty-four hours before they appear in the morning newspapers, and sorts them by keyword. The system provides the most current real-time access to news and information available to private or public organizations."

I urge you to read the entire piece:( ' Liberated' here below )