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Feb. 21st, 2002 08:23 pmThe Pentagon is insisting that they aren't planning to offer disinformation through media outlets.
"The Pentagon does not issue disinformation to the foreign press or any press," Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said.
He and his aides said the exact limits of the office's (Office of Strategic Influence) mandate have yet to be defined, but that its efforts to shape world opinion would not include deliberately spreading falsehoods.
Rumsfeld said the Pentagon might engage in strategic or tactical deception, as it has in the past. For example, if U.S. troops were about to launch an attack from the west, they might do things that would make the enemy believe an attack was instead coming from the north, Rumsfeld said.
Deception != Falsehood? I bet any kid who's ever tried to make that argument can tell you how accurate that is in the eyes of most adults. *snort*
Douglas Feith (the undersecretary of defense for policy), who oversees the new office, was quoted as saying: "But we are not going to blow our credibility as an institution in our public pronouncements."
Er, WHAT credibility?
22:30
Just noticed this commentary by Tom Teepen.
"The Pentagon does not issue disinformation to the foreign press or any press," Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said.
He and his aides said the exact limits of the office's (Office of Strategic Influence) mandate have yet to be defined, but that its efforts to shape world opinion would not include deliberately spreading falsehoods.
Rumsfeld said the Pentagon might engage in strategic or tactical deception, as it has in the past. For example, if U.S. troops were about to launch an attack from the west, they might do things that would make the enemy believe an attack was instead coming from the north, Rumsfeld said.
Deception != Falsehood? I bet any kid who's ever tried to make that argument can tell you how accurate that is in the eyes of most adults. *snort*
Douglas Feith (the undersecretary of defense for policy), who oversees the new office, was quoted as saying: "But we are not going to blow our credibility as an institution in our public pronouncements."
Er, WHAT credibility?
22:30
Just noticed this commentary by Tom Teepen.
