"the Pentagon says it will wage war against the internet"

[norml]

America's war on the web


While the US remains committed to hunting down al-Qaeda operatives, it is now taking the battle to new fronts. Deep within the Pentagon, technologies are being deployed to wage the war on terror on the internet, in newspapers and even through mobile phones. Investigations editor Neil Mackay reports

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In 2006, we are just about to enter such a world. This is the age of information warfare, and details of how this new military doctrine will affect everyone on the planet are contained in a report, entitled The Information Operations Roadmap, commissioned and approved by US secretary of defence Donald Rumsfeld and seen by the Sunday Herald.

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lFirstly, the Pentagon says it will wage war against the internet in order to dominate the realm of communications, prevent digital attacks on the US and its allies, and to have the upper hand when launching cyber-attacks against enemies.

lSecondly, psychological military operations, known as psyops, will be at the heart of future military action. Psyops involve using any media – from newspapers, books and posters to the internet, music, Blackberrys and personal digital assistants (PDAs) – to put out black propaganda to assist government and military strategy. Psyops involve the dissemination of lies and fake stories and releasing information to wrong-foot the enemy.

lThirdly, the US wants to take control of the Earth’s electromagnetic spectrum, allowing US war planners to dominate mobile phones, PDAs, the web, radio, TV and other forms of modern communication. That could see entire countries denied access to telecommunications at the flick of a switch by America.


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http://www.sundayherald.com/54975

[Jose Diablo]

1. Who is the enemy? n/t

[norml]

2. Since "the Pentagon says it will wage war against the internet" the enemy

must be the internet.

[OG Yankee Patriot]

42. This is an April Fool's joke, right?

I have long since lost my ability to be surprised or astounded by anything Bushpigs think up.
This has to be somebody's idea of parody.

[chrisfloyd]

115. The BBC wrote about this quite a long time ago.

A much better article really.


US plans to 'fight the net' revealed


By Adam Brookes
BBC Pentagon correspondent

A newly declassified document gives a fascinating glimpse into the US military's plans for "information operations" - from psychological operations, to attacks on hostile computer networks.

Internet cafe in Iraq
The document says information is "critical to military success"

Bloggers beware.

SNIP

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4655196.stm

[wordpix]

121. at least we can rest assured that BushCo is so incompetent, it will never

truly succeed with its Nazi-style propaganda machine. Still, we have to fight it every step of the way.

[file83]

70. Al Gore "invented" the internets, so HE must be the ENEMY!!

:freak:<--- Donald Rumsfeld, trying to figure out how to control the internet with a joystick.

[RC]

3. My thoughts exactly

We didn't seem to have much of a problem before dimson was installed. Now everybody is a suspect, even though all terrorest links seem to go back to the White House somehow or other.

[0007]

7. All out gung ho! Can ya believe this?

"prevent digital attacks on the US and its allies, and to have the upper hand when launching cyber-attacks against enemies."

[me b zola]

35. It reminds me a lot of the "communist scare" and red baiting

McCarthy & his ilk were after liberals and hid behind the "threat of the red menace". Seems like the more things change the more they stay the same.


edited to say that I can't spell.

[Canuckistanian]

10. Yes, who's "digitally attacking" the US?

This seems to be another cure without a disease.

[kestrel91316]

29. These days "We The People" seem to be the enemy.

[oneold1-4u]

60. That is the answer!

When the people no longer have any means to communicate that the regime can't follow, intercept and totally garble, they will have completed the battle against the people without firing a shot!

[gglor]

89. the object is complete control of the individual

This bush fascism fears our thoughts and fears our ability to communicate and to join together to fight this takeover government. Bush and the bush family need to control every media. Then they will be able to take away any power we have to see the truth.

That is really what the NSA spying is about. The bush government wants to dominate the middle class with fear of retaliation, just like the CIA outing. Only Bush will penalize anyone who is anti war, anti bush and anti corporate takeover of our government.

[Betsy Ross]

40. As Pogo once said:

[november3rd]

44. who's the enemy?

The truth. The "war" of information is a war against objective reality, empiricism, common sense and veracity of every stripe.

Information and technology are the weapons.

Human thought control is the objective for victory.

One plus one is three.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Orwell: the prophet of the new millenium.

[PegDAC]

57. Perish the thought

that the truth be known and disseminated!

[spanone]

92. The 'enemy' will be anyone who doesn't march lock-step with the adm.

What will these fuckers do if we get a president who actually cares about the constitution??? JFK???

[wordpix]

120. that's what I think, too. Sites like DU will be shut down because

we're too independent minded and informed on the issues.

[PegDAC]

54. Who is the enemy?

Must be US.

[killbotfactory]

66. Truth

[Higans]

69. The enemy is us silly. DU, the VelvetRevolution Moveon.org

Blackboxvoting.org

The Blogs are the enemy
For more info go here:
http://www.netfreedomnow.org/

[The Wizard]

81. Digital penetration

So when this digital attack happens, what will it feel like? Why doesn't the Administration just come out and say it already, they're at war with everyone and everything they can't control. We already know Bushigula is at war with the English language, honesty, reason and logic. He did refer to "Internets" so there must be more than one. Which one of the internets is threatening freedom on the march?

[mzmolly]

101. Actual news.

That's my guess.

[sofa king]

112. Walt Kelly, I think.

(Oops, I see a lot of other folks have fingered Walt Kelly, too.)

[cantstandbush]

113. WE are the enemy. That's who they will be coming after, us!

Too much truth and information escapes their clutches over the Internet.

[Jim Warren]

4. WTF? Truth Squads?

"Other examples of information war listed in the report include the creation of “Truth Squads” to provide public information when negative publicity, such as the Abu Ghraib torture scandal, hits US operations, and the establishment of “Humanitarian Road Shows”, which will talk up American support for democracy and freedom."

Truth Squads? The clocks are striking thirteen.

[suffragette]

8. Didn't Jean Schmidt say something about being part of a Truth Squad?

And then there's Kaloogian's Truth Tour.
Looks like they've already been using that one.
Of course, they really should be called "Anything but the Truth Squad."

[KansDem]

86. "Truth" has become a five-letter word

Don't forget the so-called "Swift Boat Vets for 'Truth'"

[suffragette]

95. Yep, too bad we can't sue them under truth in labeling laws

since their brand of truth is actually repackaged lies.

[EVDebs]

14. I guess this means that ChoicePoint will clean up the credit files of

people who've been ID theft'd ? Maybe the military can help the guys at SAIC

Pentagon, CIA and Cyberwars
http://www.whoscounting.net/PentagCIandCyber.htm

[hootinholler]

24. What makes you think this isn't the guys at SAIC?

They've been working on this for ages. We need to re-establish FIDO-net as a contingency. They could be listening at the telco swithces for digital traffic modem to modem not listed on an ISP pop bank. Of course that would shut down all fax traffic as well, so it would be a huge impact to business.

Sorry to ramble but the implications here for a techie are pretty severe and my mind is racing.

-Hoot

[EVDebs]

31. Supposedly SAIC was hacked itself and ID thefted, but that said...

Total Surveillance
http://www.motherjones.com/interview/2005/12/albrecht.html ...

Couple this insidious technology with purposely erroneous background checks

Who is checking the background checkers?
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1128/p13s02-wmgn.html

They've offshored, outsourced, and privatized TIA. Now all they have to do is fire you for being 'of the wrong political party' and put false information in your background data...and voila ! You've just created the most insidious terror project in the US ever.

TIA is now in the Bahamas, with Global Information Group Ltd. and under Ben H. Bell's direction

Bahamas Firm Screens Personal Data To Assess Risk
Operation Avoids U.S. Privacy Rules
by Robert O'Harrow Jr.
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, October 16, 2004; Page A01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36853-2004Oct15.html

[Jose Diablo]

32. During my tour at the telco's

One of the projects I was tasked to manage was a replacement for the 'service observing' fuctionional hardware that had become obsolete when the operator assisted call network evolved to an all digital system of switchers called the Operator Service Position System (OSPS).

Now the new hardware for the service observing on the digital switches was an anchillary module mounted close to cross-connect frame that connected the OSPS to the world. Cross-connect jacks were used to plug this new hardware into the incoming and outgoing jacks of the OSPS switch. The way I see it, this is the mechanism for monitoring calls on the switch. There actually is no physical connection to a specific call, but all calls on the multiplexed line could be monitored remotely. I doubt whomever was monitoring those calls worked for the phone-factory.

That specific project did not come-in on time. But they replaced me on that project when they saw my heart was not in it. Probably some ambitious Republican finished it and placed it online. By then I was an 'old timer' and had been around the block a few times, seeing things the younger workers wouldn't see, not as gung-ho.

I know they were really pissed-off at me, I even got a call from some guy, sounded DARPA to me, at headquarters. He asked me if it was my resposibility to bring this project in, I said, "Yep, I am responsible". Screw him. This was early in 91, I got laid-off in September of that year, but they called me back in Novenber, didn't even lose a days pay. As they paid me while I was off. Go figure.

You can bet they listen in on phone calls, and it isn't some dizzy operator either. It's military.

When I started working at the phone-factory several decades earlier, it was very strict, no monitoring calls by anyone unless 'security department' called. And then it was only with a pen recorder that recorded the called telephone numbers. And security required a warrant before they would do shit for anybody. Even tracing a call, we would only respond to requests to trace from security. But with Bu$h 1, all that began to change.

The old style 'service observing' would disconnect the operator about 2 seconds after the call completed so the operator couldn't listen in. The new stuff? Nope.

The executives in the phone company, the FCC and Congress is culpable in allowing our telecommunications to be monitored by 'Fearless Fosdick'. That's why few Dems showed at the hearing. They already know and have known.

[EVDebs]

90. Listen CAREFULLY to Gene Hackman's little talk in The Conversation

That tech was around prior to the movie being shot (1974)

http://www.filmsite.org/conv.html

Aside from the stale tech, James Bamford says NSA tech is always around 5 years ahead of anything in the commercial world anyway.

[Jose Diablo]

114. Yes, that film would be about using

the 'no test' verticals. This tech has been there since at least the 20's. Used primarily to test lines from the local test desk, but also for busy line verify by the cord board operators and later, 77 I think it was, by the TSPS operators. TSPS is the technology between cord boards and the all electronic digital operator systems.

But it's only a movie. The technology was there to remotely access a line, however the 'no test' verticals in each of the local offices were not accessible except between predefined locations wired in place. And at that time, you had to be local to get access to them. It's only a movie, in practice it would have been quite impossible to get access from all over the country to those testing circuits from anyplace other than the operator cord board within that area code (Inward operator they were called) or the test desk for that local central office. In 74, the push to consolidate testing fuctions was only just beginning. By and large everything was diffused throughout the network. Most people worked in a single central office that had it's dedicated technicians, and even the work order processing was done by local business office personel, often in the same building as the switch. It was a far different world then, in the phone-factory. Today, I imagine all these fuctions are consolidated to a minimum of a single work center per local area network, a state, region or even the country in the some cases. What was in the movie is possible today, not in 74 though.

However, it's not to say that monitoring calls didn't happen. I know of 2 instances in which it happened, not by the government but by employees. One was an operator sniffing to see what her soon to be ex was up too. Another was by a technician checking on his wife running around with her boss, a real estate agent. Both of them got away with it. However, 'security' watched all of us pretty closely, the ones in a position to do these things. I know several that abused the trust and got busted. The folks in 'security' knew all the tricks and the rules were there for all to see. We would sometimes make 'blue boxes', just to do it, as a challenge. One of my designs ended-up a test board for generating calls to exersize circuits to find 'flacky' circuits that needed to be adjusted. But the 'blue boxes' could also be used to make free calls, and some guys would sell them to businessmen, generally at the local titty bar. Most of the times, the techs would get caught and fired for doing that. Now days, the 'blue boxes' won't do squat as all signalling is out-of-band with the all digital network. So much for phreaking.

In my previous post, I was speaking of the performance indexing of the various central office switchers to determine how well the switches were working. This was done by monitoring the call set-ups to verify the calls completed to the point of both parties answering the phone. This 'service observing' was done to see how well the network was working. Statistical analysis was used to determine a number, like say 99.99% of all calls worked ok. If that statistic dropped to say 98%, there was routine maintenance indicated, thus more money was allocated to perform routine maintenance. The characteristics of that type of switch, electro-mechanical equipment was such that most of the time the circuits worked, but when they became 'marginal' they would fail say every 100th time the circuit was used, thus the index indicated a need to physically adjust all the circuits in a switch to optimum adjustment, a very expensive undertaking. Even in the 90's, there were many older local switches, not so much in the urban or suburban, but in the rural areas. I imagine by now even the rural older switches are all gone, replaced by digital switches.

[drm604]

46. Maybe do it by shortwave?

Is that possible? FIDO-net via a shortwave digital packet network?

[Jose Diablo]

51. Yes, FIDO and Tor should be able to set-up a non-telco network

If there is enough participants.

http://tor.eff.org/

PC's today have enough horsepower enough to set-up something that could resemble todays internet. Maybe a few of the PC's could be "accessing PC's" that would provide high speed bandwidth to bridge isolated Tor networks around the country with strong encryption on the payload of the packets.

A good start would be to start sending PGP encrypted e-mails between friends so overwelm the monitoring of e-mail. After all, nobody sends a letter via snail mail without an envelope, so why is it we send e-mails without an envelope? If everyone is sending there e-mails encrypted, you can bet NSA would be troubled. What they try to capture are messages with certail keywords. If it's all encrypted, the frontend gathering, is screwed. It reverts to the network of old where there just isn't enough people to monitor. Without 'carnivours' ability to gather and sniff-out for the keywords, well it a big task to sift through a terabit of data manually, to say nothing to try to decrypt the gigaplex number of messages.

As for voice, I wonder if VOIP can be run on Tor. Wouldn't that be something, to screw the telco's with FIDO and Tor.

Edit: LOL, I can see it now, a self configuring and self healing network immune to monitoring by either the telco's or governments, anywhere. Put that in yer pipe and smoke it, FBI.

[drm604]

53. Thank you for the link to the Tor site.

I've only started to look at it but it looks interesting. Maybe you should start a thread on it to get as many DUers involved as possible.

http://tor.eff.org/

[Canuckistanian]

64. It doesn't matter

Once that signal gets digitized, it can be inserted into one of a million regular streams going anywhere - satellite, microwave links, high-speed data haulbacks.

The US government must have THOUSANDS of high-speed land connections. Why risk broadcasting anything?

[drm604]

77. Yes, but how easy is it to tap into such things?

:shrug:

Not to mention the questionable legality of it.

[Canuckistanian]

82. Dead easy...

When your voice is digitized and sent into a multiplexer it can be easily extracted at any number of points and sent to any number of destinations. This is all simply a matter of programming, not hardware.

All these stories about people hearing "clicking noises"? Uh-uh. You'd never hear a thing. There need not be a physical connection once your conversation becomes a digital stream. It can be copied and sent wherever instantly.

[drm604]

83. I guess I'm not following you.

Are you talking about doing it over the internet, or something else?

[Canuckistanian]

84. Not exactly

Your voice turns into a stream of ones and zeroes at your local Central Office (the telephone company or telco). From there, it gets combined ("multiplexed")with many others and then sent to a regional center.

The "tapping" is most likely done at one of those regional centers. Your digital stream can be separated ("de-multiplexed") from the rest as a copy and either recorded on disk or monitored in real-time or instantly analyzed by voice recognition computers.

These data streams are moved around the country in any number of ways by the telco. As you may or may not know, occasionally, your voice may not follow a straight line path from you to your other party. Your signal may be bounced around the country several times in times of congestion.

This is not exactly the internet, but sometimes it may be combined with internet or video or other audio streams. It's all digital data and it's all handled the same way. High speed switches don't care what the source of the data is, it's all just ones and zeroes. And any stream can be copied and redirected. It's done all the time.

Does this make sense?

[drm604]

91. Yes, but

I'm not sure how DUers, for example, would use this to set up an underground communications network that we all could access. You seem to be talking about physical taps at phone offices, how would that be achievable (or even legal!) and what good what it do for the vast majority of us?

[Canuckistanian]

93. Sorry, I misunderstood you

I thought you were asking a general question about wiretapping.

As for setting up a private network, it's possible (companies like mine have one, called a VPN), but as the poster below has said, encryption would be an issue. A very high level of encryption would be necessary and SOMEONE would be responsible for holding those keys.

How would one guarantee exclusivity to the end users? After all, that's what spies do, every day - steal access to groups.

Unless there's an underground group with strict control of membership, this won't become widespread.

[Jose Diablo]

97. Nobody would hold all the keys

during communication set-up, each 'end' exchanges their public keys. Each end holds their public and private keys.

The public keys can be sent 'in the clear' as holding both public key by the man in the middle doesn't get squat for decrypting the cipher text.

I am not sure if the private keys would remain private for long as the clear text of the web site would be known as would it's transmitted cipher text.

However, if the private/public keys change with each communication set-up (or if you prefer, each call) and the public keys exchanged for each 'session', then that should not be a problem.

The main thing is to force a decrypt on the man in the middle before the bulk gathering of data and keyword search. This removes the ability to mechanize the gathering of data and 'sniffing' everyones data.

[drm604]

99. If the idea is simply to circumvent

the information filters and get the truth out then I don't think strict control of membership is really required is it? The only problem is hiding indentities of the individuals who are disseminating the info. Maybe simple audio shortwave broadcasts from mobile stations or from someplace offshore would serve the purpose.

[Jose Diablo]

85. Man in the middle attack

As you say, intercept is easy. But what happens if the bit stream is encrypted. For example, using the dual cypher encryption scheme like PGP, but instead of software (too slow) use hardware chips at each end to encrypt decrypt. Problem is, how to make the 'scrambler' and have it commercialized without the government crippling it's strength during the manufacturing.

But suppose the manufacturing could be accomplished, then each 'terminating node' on the physical layer would contain a scrambler chip. Of course, traffic analysis could still be done, but if the pay load of each packet requires analysis, then the sheer volume of processing whould be overwhelming, unless there was a specific target (think probable cause). And the government would gain nothing from gathering everything from everyone. In a way, enforcing the constitution in the communication infrastructure using hardware on every computer and/or phone.

But you know, 'fearless Fosdick' will try to cripple the scrambling and/or key system during manufacturing.

Communication should be private, just like the law used to be.

[robertpaulsen]

33. Truth Squads?! Could someone send this article to Stephen Colbert?

This sounds like its right up his alley! ;)

[Amonester]

50. So from now on, for the war criminals-in-chief, their torture is just...

"negative publicity, such as the Abu Ghraib torture scandal"

Who would have thought? :grr:

[PegDAC]

55. I've heard the phrase

"Truth Squads" before somewhere. Was it during Vietnam, or am I having a senior spasm?

[bee]

5. oh. my. f*ing. head

k&r everyone should read this.

[faithnotgreed]

73. well said bee

[IChing]

6. "dissemination of lies and fake stories"

"Psyops involve using any media – from newspapers, books and posters to the internet, music, Blackberrys and personal digital assistants (PDAs) – to put out black propaganda to assist government and military strategy.

Psyops involve the dissemination of lies and fake stories and releasing information to wrong-foot the enemy."

They are way ahead of the game on this one,

Now was that statement from them a lie, disinformation or black propaganda?

[Gabi Hayes]

12. at least eighty percent of what the M$M disseminates falls under this

category, and I think I'm a little low on that estimate

they want to STAMP OUT any and all "negative publicity"

especially NP that's TRUTHFUL

their war is against THE TRUTH, and anybody foolish enough to insist upon spreading it

[Joanne98]

27. That's what I was thinking. We already have this program...

On the Tee Vee!

[Hubert Flottz]

9. Rumbo has turned into Dokkktor Evil!

The man is a power crazy nut case!

[awoke_in_2003]

45. Have to disagree

Doctor Evil was funny (even if raised by Belgians) and had a clone. Much cooler than Rummy

[DELUSIONAL]

11. They already have developed killer computer viruses

If someone puts a disk in a civilian computer that has been in a military computer -- the civilian computer is unusable because it is contaminated with a super virus.

Say an individual is putting on a slide show and reaches for a disk, thinking it is his disk, and puts the alien disk in his computer . . . that's all it takes.

This is the short version of something that did happen -- and the laptop computer was completely unusable. It seems that in order to protect military computers -- a resident virus has been installed.

In my opinion the Pentagon has been figuring out ways to kill the Internet. Where do all the hackers go?? Do they go to jail or are they putting their special talents to work for the US military??

[C_U_L8R]

23. This is all they need to destroy the internet

and the entire world with it.. .bwahahaha


Opening Scene:
A suburban house in a boring looking street. Zoom into upstairs window. Serious documentary music. Interior of small room. A bent figure (Michael Palin) huddles over a table, writing. He is surrounded by bits of paper. The camera is situated facing the man as he writes with immense concentration lining his unshaven face.

Voice Over:
This man is Ernest Scribbler... writer of jokes.
In a few moments, he will have written the funniest joke in the world... and, as a consequence, he will die... laughing.

Ernest stops writing, pauses to look at what he has written... a smile slowly spreads across his face, turning very, very slowly to uncontrolled hysterical laughter... he staggers to his feet and reels across room helpless with mounting mirth and eventually collapses and dies on the floor.

Voice Over:
It was obvious that this joke was lethal...
no one could read it and live...

[Jose Diablo]

37. Just be sure your BIOS cannot be written

on the main board, there is a strap that must be connected before the BIOS can be written, or overwritten if you will. Make sure the strap is not connected allowing an overwrite to BIOS.

Make sure the BIOS is hardware protected, keep a boot disk and a back-up of the BIOS and a floopy drive (even if its outdated tech). With that and the original OS on a CD anything a virus can do can be undone.

[bpilgrim]

13. Bring it on!

more...
http://GlobalFreePress.com

psst... pass the word ;->

peace

[Nikki Stone1]

15. If they are as successful with the internet as they have been with Iraq,

we'll all be hackers in no time!

:)

[Pacifist Patriot]

20. I thought the same thing.

I'm supposed to be worried about a group of folks who can't plan their way out of a paper bag?

[Nikki Stone1]

26. That's the problem! The Bush administration is in a paper bag.

:)

When they find their way out of it, the sunlight will kill them.

[undeterred]

16. I've heard that the network security at government agencies

is some of the worst around. If they are so worried about terrorism they should send their network team to a few classes.

[Jack Rabbit]

17. They will wage war against the terrorists who

. . . think the Bill of Rights ought to mean something
. . . think torture is inhumane and a violation of international law
. . . think Bush is a liar (gee, just because we've got proof!!)
. . . think Bush ought to be impeached and tried for war crimes

Never mind the ones who plant bombs and crash passenger jets into office buildings. A guy can get hurt doing something about them!

[robertpaulsen]

18. I called this one back in February. Rumsfeld is a fucking demon!

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Rumsfeld is trying to take over the internet

I saw this article last week. It's a long article, but buried in there is this startling information:

A secret Pentagon "Information Operations Roadmap," approved by Rumsfeld in October 2003, calls for "full spectrum" information operations and notes that "information intended for foreign audiences, including public diplomacy and PSYOP, increasingly is consumed by our domestic audience and vice versa."

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The Pentagon plan also includes a strategy for taking over the internet and controlling the flow of information, viewing the web as a potential military adversary. The "roadmap" speaks of "fighting the net," and implies that the internet is the equivalent of "an enemy weapons system."

In a speech on Feb. 17 to the Council on Foreign Relations, Rumsfeld elaborated on the administration's perception that the battle over information would be a crucial front in the War on Terror, or as Rumsfeld calls it, the Long War.

"Let there be no doubt, the longer it takes to put a strategic communication framework into place, the more we can be certain that the vacuum will be filled by the enemy and by news informers that most assuredly will not paint an accurate picture of what is actually taking place," Rumsfeld said.

more...

http://www.alternet.org/story/32647



Then today, I found more detailed info at this article:

Rumsfeld’s comments are intended to awaken his constituents to the massive information war that is being waged to transform the Internet into the progeny of the MSM; a reliable partner for the dissemination of establishment-friendly news.

The Associated Press reported recently that the US government conducted a massive simulated attack on the Internet called “Cyber-Storm”. The wargame was designed, among other things, to “respond to misinformation campaigns and activist calls by internet bloggers, online diarists whose ‘Web logs” include political rantings and musings about current events”.

Before Bush took office, “political rantings and musings about current events” were protected under the 1st amendment.

No more.

The War Department is planning to insert itself into every area of the Internet from blogs to chat rooms, from leftist web sites to editorial commentary. Their rapid response team will be on hair-trigger alert to dispute any tidbit of information that challenges the official storyline.

more...

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12060.htm


I think this is another war that will not end in our lifetimes that we NEED to prepare for!

[Pacifist Patriot]

21. Well he is right about one thing.

Information is definitely his enemy.

[donkeyotay]

96. The only thing worse than information flowing freely among free people

is a corrupt government operating in secrecy with policies built out of lies. Saying or thinking something is so, don't make it so. Deciding that the problem is the person who points that out only compounds the error. But these asshats have never admitted than anything they've done - let alone plan to do - is wrong.

So, the military is spying on Americans - my guess is ALL Americans - and now they finally admit that military psychological operations use the supposedly free press to help us come to the right conclusions.

More money. More power. More secrecy. Everything will be fine.

[norml]

76. Thought Control: By Ghali Hassan, 03 April, 2006 Countercurrents.org

Thought Control

By Ghali Hassan

03 April, 2006
Countercurrents.org


Like all imperialist forces, the US is heavily relaying on misinformation propaganda campaign to promote and enhance its imperialist ideology. Violence and war crimes against defenceless civilians are depicted as “fighting the enemy”. The mass murder of Iraqi civilians by US forces is normalised and welcomed with deafening silence. The purpose is thought control, or as it is called “perception management” designed to enhance US images. The campaign is part of a wider Western strategy to mislead the public, remove historical memory and justify more wars.

According to George Orwell, newspeak is a form of propaganda to cover up criminal actions, especially killing people unjustly and deliberately, with a veneer of justification and reason. In Iraq, the occupying forces are increasingly covering the truth with lies and deception, blame the Iraqi people for the violence they have inflicted on them, and to remove the Occupation as the generator of violence.

The three-year US Occupation of Iraq is becoming increasingly violent and the occupying forces are killing Iraqi civilians with impunity while encouraging Iraqis to fight each other. The atrocity is aided by massive Western propaganda campaign to demonise Iraqis and portray not only Iraqis but also Muslims in general as fanatic and violent. This includes: 1) the Occupation is a benign “peace mission” and necessary “to prevent” civil war; 2) Iraq is a “breeding ground for terrorists”– as if the illegal invasion and Occupation of Iraq are not the greatest acts of terrorism; and 3) Iraqis are responsible for what is happening to them. Each of the three is a falsehood Western elites (Left and Right) have adopted these falsehoods to justify their attacks on the Iraqi people and to jump on the misinformation propaganda of Occupation bandwagon.

A recent secret Pentagon ‘roadmap’ on war propaganda, personally approved by Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld in October 2003, calls for the total control of information before they become available to the American public. The aim is to pacify and remove the public influence on foreign policies. Furthermore, the US continues the practice of paying journalists, including Iraqis, to plant stories in the Iraqi news media in favour of the brutal Occupation. The purpose is thought control, or as it is called “perception management”, designed to enhance US images, including military image.


snip


http://www.countercurrents.org/iraq-hassan030406.htm

[norml]

118. Only 8 Google News results for "Information Operations Roadmap".

Results 1 - 8 of 8 for Information-Operations-Roadmap. (0.14 seconds)


US Military Plans To Assume Control of Telecom Spectrum
Truthdig, United States - 8 hours ago
... of how this new military doctrine will affect everyone on the planet are contained in a report, entitled The Information Operations Roadmap, commissioned and ...

Taking Aim at the Net: Pentagon Coming
PEJ News, Canada - 16 hours ago
... of how this new military doctrine will affect everyone on the planet are contained in a report, entitled The Information Operations Roadmap, commissioned and ...

America's war on the web
uruknet.info, Italy - Apr 2, 2006
... of how this new military doctrine will affect everyone on the planet are contained in a report, entitled The Information Operations Roadmap, commissioned and ...

America's war on the web
Sunday Herald, UK - Apr 1, 2006
... of how this new military doctrine will affect everyone on the planet are contained in a report, entitled The Information Operations Roadmap, commissioned and ...

Bush's Mysterious 'New Programs'
ZNet, MA - Mar 8, 2006
... A secret Pentagon "Information Operations Roadmap," approved by Rumsfeld in October 2003, calls for "full spectrum" information operations and notes that ...

America Anesthetized
Media Channel, NY - Mar 6, 2006
... In 2003, the Pentagon produced another propaganda program described in a document called “Information Operations Roadmap,” which describes the need for ...

America Anesthetized
uruknet.info, Italy - Mar 4, 2006
... In 2003, the Pentagon produced another propaganda program described in a document called "Information Operations Roadmap," which describes the need for ...

America Anesthetized
Consortium News - Mar 4, 2006
... In 2003, the Pentagon produced another propaganda program described in a document called “Information Operations Roadmap,” which describes the need for ...


http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&lr=&tab=wn&ie=UTF-8&q=%22Information+Operations+Roadmap%22&scoring=d

[robertpaulsen]

123. Thanks for the updates, norml!

:kick:

[C_U_L8R]

19. That's the silliest strategy I've heard of since

Don Quixote attacked a windmill.

Besides.. as the Prezidunt informs us... its internetS with an S.
Clearly we'd be out numbered. We might need another coalition of the witless.

[Joanne98]

22. This is a fucking nightmare!

[w8liftinglady]

25. in which case we need to decide which yahoo groups we will join.

we had discussed earlier about starting a quilting or knitting group on Yahoo for our alternate site should DU be "disappeared".maybe we should start a PM campaign to spread the word.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

Translation: Rummy Going Batshit Crazy!

Heart plaque is your friend, Don.

[nolabels]

61. The beginning of the end is when they feel the need to attack the messenge

The difference of defending your nation and defending a myth has a big cavernous pitfall between it.

[Trillo]

28. They aren't already?

Seems they are already doing so.

[Neil Lisst]

30. There's no doubt they consider US the enemy too.

This administration intends to use their resources to attack and perhaps disable sites like DU in the event of some serious event. Should there be another large scale attack on America, I fully expect the Bush feds to try to disrupt the ability of citizens to dialogue in forums such as this one.

I'm not saying they will shut it down entirely, but I do look for interruptions caused by limited servers and limited internet paths.

[Fleshdancer]

34. which one?

didn't Bush call it "the internets" during the 2004 debates? :rofl:

[gordontron]

36. no way!

[norml]

72. Way

Definition of Information Operations:

'The integrated employment of the core capabilities of electronic warfare , computer network operations , psychological operations , military deception, and operations security , with specified supporting and related capabilities to influence, disrupt, corrupt, or usurp adversarial human and automated decisionmaking while protecting our own.'

DOD Information Operations Roadmap, 30. October 2003



Essential Documents


Documents

DOD Information Operations Roadmap <2.4MB>, 30. October 2003, posted January 2006 (courtesy of the National Security Archive)

Field Manual (FM) 3-13: Information Operations: Doctrine, Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures, <7 MB> Headquarters, Department of the Army, 28 November 2003 (This publication supersedes FM 100-6, 27 August 1996)

Information Operations Interview with Dr. Dan Kuehl from the National Defense University, Infocon Magazine Issue One, October 2003

Joint IO Planning Handbook <3.9MB>, Joint Command, Control and Information Warfare School Joint Forces Staff College, NDU July 2003

Information Operations: The Hard Reality of Soft Power, Joint Command, Control and Information Warfare School Joint Forces Staff College, NDU, 2002

snip




http://www.iwar.org.uk/iwar/

[happydreams]

38. We're gonna lie and that's the truth

:crazy:

[Bushknew]

68. LOL, I know ...

When will Conservatives acknowledge that these neo cons are not Americans.

[savemefromdumbya]

39. this high tech stuff hasn't caught Osama bin Ladin - excuse to spy on us

far too much of taxpayers' money is being wasted on futile surveillance of old ladies and vegetarians instead of finding Osama Bin Ladin and other villans? The failure of being able to track down these terrorists is extremely embarassing. Perhaps they should resort to the old ways and not rely on this high tech stuff. They did far better in WW2 and they didn't have computers then.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

41. Makes George Orwell sound like an opitimist when he wrote "1984".

Those freedom loving people at the Pentagon never give up wanting more toys to "spread democracy".

[file83]

71. Makes Aldous Huxley seem like a prophet when he wrote "Brave New World".

Either that, or Rumsfeld read it and thought, "Great idea!"

[lovuian]

43. Ya know its very scary program but they need a helluva lot

of IT people for that and they can outsource that to China and India

:rofl:

Its pretty funny... where they going to get the talent for this propoganda machine???

[PegDAC]

59. I personally know

quite a few IT people out there, employed by DoD, who are Kool-Aid drinkers.

[drm604]

47. Letting this report leak out

to a Scottish newspaper and then onto the internets isn't a good first step on their part is it? Seems like they have a long way to go. :rofl:

[nickgutierrez]

48. "Age of information warfare"

I love that phrase. Absolutely love it.

It's a perfect description of just what this administration has been doing.

[IChing]

49. Read this article to understand that they are already working in forums

And I think in DU and other progressive sites
Just go into the 911 forum here and you can see the same people that post almost at 24hours of the day or week
when something new is brought up in that forum

Also an interesting article about "above top secret" site being a disinformation tool

You decide:

http://laura-knight-jadczyk.blogspot.com/


this is the followup

http://laura-knight-jadczyk.blogspot.com/2006/01/cointelpro-updates-above-top-secret.html

[EVDebs]

102. On the old John Kerry website a DoD poster was on daily re 9-11 stuff

Very weird. Said he was an Air Force guy who sided with Kerry. I'm sure the DoD appreciated his postings during work hours.

[PegDAC]

52. 'Squeeze me? n/t

[AndyA]

56. It would seem the focus is on war, not peace, wouldn't it?

So much for the Constitution. So much for "one nation under God".

[PegDAC]

58. Emergency!!

Someone send this to Mike Malloy!!

[Blue_Tires]

62. "I hears rumors on tha interwebnets?"

[Torn_Scorned_Ignored]

63. Electromagnetic Spectrum and Mind Control

lThirdly, the US wants to take control of the Earth’s electromagnetic spectrum, allowing US war planners to dominate mobile phones, PDAs, the web, radio, TV and other forms of modern communication. That could see entire countries denied access to telecommunications at the flick of a switch by America.

http://www.parascope.com/articles/0797/em1.htm

From 1965 through to 1970, Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency (DARPA), with up to 70-80% funding provided by the military, set in motion operation PANDORA to study the health and psychological effects of low intensity microwaves with regard to the so-called "Moscow signal." This project appears to have been quite extensive and included (under U.S. Navy funding) studies demonstrating how to induce heart seizures, create leaks in the blood/brain barrier and production of auditory hallucinations. Despite attempts to render the Pandora program invisible to scrutiny, FOIA filings revealed memoranda of Richard Cesaro, Director of DARPA, which confirmed that the program's initial goal was to "discover whether a carefully controlled microwave signal could control the mind." Cesaro urged that these studies be made "for potential weapons applications."

Interesting article - relevant as well.

[MCMetal]

65. prevent digital attacks on the US and its allies,

Because the loss of life in that type of a scenario would be untold multitudes ?
I've seen monkey shit fights at the zoo that make more sense than our Chimperor-In-Chief , his garbage administration , their insane policies , and off-the-wall ideas and antics.

[norml]

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[Jose Diablo]

116. Thats what we been saying about the tinfoil hats all this time

Those microwaves will melt yer brain. And the debunkers though we were paranoid. Ha.

With the properly made tinfoil cap, a baseball cap with Reynolds aluminun wrap folded in half with the shiney side out, make sure the shiney side is out to reflect the microwaves rather than allowing them to bounce around inside the skull, you can be in a public place and nobody is the wiser that you know what they are up to with these mind control waves. And you are immune to the waves too. You might want to wear a glassy eyed gaze, just like the soccer moms, so you don't give away that you know what's going on.

:tinfoilhat:

[norml]

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[NJCher]

67. culpable not capable

I absolutely, without a doubt, believe these megalomaniacs are serious about this. But do they have the capability to carry it off? I look forward to many howlarious scenarios as these assclowns one up themselves. The past five years has been nothing but one disaster after another. Sheer incompetence.

Never, ever in the history of mankind has anyone seen such an incompetent group of fools in charge of a nation the size of the U.S.

Unfortunately, the reason none of these bizarre Rumsfeld fantasies will be implemented is that the US is going belly up in a big way, thanks to these out-of-touch assholes. Let's see how well they carry off their techno wet dreams when the world economic disaster hits (and oh yeah, let's throw in a global warming hurricane or two and God knows what else that for sure is coming down the pike). That we can count on.




Cher

[abester]

74. The beginning of the End of America

Like all things in nature the world-wide American Economic Empire must come to an end. With the active contemplation, and even possible implementation of this rediculous policy, America's domination is entering its final phase.

In the 60 or so years of its domination, people abroad have accepted their economic lead based on bribery, misguided good-will, or in its darker episodes, undercover operations (especially in Latin America). But now, it is becomming apparant and plain for everyone what America's (at least for those in power) true intentions are, nothing short of global domination, all under the guise of national security.
The end is drawning near, as America has wasted whatever credibility it had left, and down-to-the street polls reflect this.

The way they aim for this domination scheme is a combination for millitary might, and now, also trough information dominance. The last part is going to fail, however, and the Pentagon/Whitehouse are overplaying their cards here. The threat of electronic terrorism is bogus, as any fool can plainly see, and terrorism is once again only used as pretext, in forcing other nations into abiding to American whims.

Do they really think China, or Russia, or even the EU is going to sit idly by, especially after recent events, and just 'give away' their soveiregn rights of the Ether? Or allow foreign (in particular American) intrusion on the internet? Delusional. The only anti-internet reforms are contemplated in America, and contrary to popular belief, America does NOT run, or control, or own the internet, and necessarily any repressive laws enacted against it only affect America.

The only way for America out of impending (economic and social) doom is, as John Perkins so nicely put in his Confessions of an Economic Hitman, for American leaders, for the first time in history, to hold true to the ideals of the founding fathers. To promote freedom and education, and to help the poor both at home and abroad.

[sadjonny]

94. The END of America

Someone here said go back to fidonet.
FTS-001 packets won't stop them. Fidonet relies on telco's and telcos can shut down anything on their netwoks.

Someone here said something about other wireless networks. Wireless networks will not work when
this evil http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/cam.fcgi H.A.A.R.P. fires up and knocks out the whole spectrum.

Your not going to be able to turn in a Public Access TV show since the telco's are petitioning the FCC to kill the franchising, so Public Access will be dead soon. No more PEG TV. No more democracy now!

It all comes down to the Ballot Box and the Jury Box. That's the only controls.

The Ballot Box is Hacked because of Electronics, Digitized Data, and Networks.
The Jury Box is Rigged because nobody knows what Jury Nullification is.

These fucking people in power are not helping us, they are killing us.

psyop's are already control the media. The only thing left is the internet and Public Access and Air America.

This is DOMESTIC TERRORISM.

[Up2Late]

75. I thought the "...war against the internet..." started a long time ago.

Or maybe they have only been contracting with UPI and NewsCorp.:mad:

[Hekate]

78. Well, this is breathtakingly obscene.

Hi Agent Mike! Are you SURE this is how you want to defend our freedom?

Hekate

[EVDebs]

103. 'Agent Mike ?' In the old days he was known as Fearless Fosdick !

Or Col. Flagg (on MASH).

[Hekate]

117. Well, them too

I was just addressing the guy DUers assume has been lurking here all along.

I should start cc'ing my e-mails to Fearless Fosdick....
"Hi Mom! I hope this finds you well today. Yr loving daughter, Hekate. cc: Fearless Fosdick"

Hekate

[symbolman]

79. Had a lobbiest pal tell me two years ago that they were going to use psyop

folks on all the liberal boards, he's working for the evil ones now, tho he's a 'liberal', Microsoft..

Said that they'd be going on boards like the DU and they would be far more subtle than you might suspect, there's one way to beat them tho, rather than have them draw you out in an arguement and wasted your time and bandwidth, let them yank your chain as they will ever so slightly and then go about your business.

Spend more time with constructive folks that more or less agree with you and share the Love.. believe it or not we can beat them with wit and love, it's always worked that way, I know it sounds strange, for one it's a foreign language to them, but not to us, and also even a spot of love MAY reach some part of them that even they are not aware of..

The more I've been thinking about it all we need to follow the advice of the Beatles, Love really IS a Force, and it works. Ask Gandi.

I'm convinced and I tell this even to right wingers, "If we do not start LOVING each other, we are ALL going to DIE."

I want to start the "War of the 100 Dozen Roses", we need to bring back the Flower and USE it.

It's that simple.

[dennis00]

80. Calling "Bond, James Bond"

Mr. Bond where are you when we need you? The evil Mr. Bush is trying to take over the planet.

[kitkat65]

87. We're fucked

Have a nice day

:)

[EVDebs]

104. ....that condition is reversible ! Come November, come soon !

[TygrBright]

88. eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...yeh. The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight...

...is now going to "wage war on the Internet."

Uh-huh.

The guys who were going to treat us to a "cakewalk" in Iraq are going to TAKE OVER the net.

Right.

The guys who can't even get their own effing computer systems working right (paging the FBI, paging the FBI,) are going to subsume the bandwidth.

ooooooooooooooooooooooo, I am SO scared!

Hand me the popcorn, someone. This should be good.

interestedly,
Bright

[donkeyotay]

98. And Blackwater USA wants to help police us, too

"The Information Operations Roadmap, commissioned and approved by US secretary of defence Donald Rumsfeld..."

F*n Donald the Incompetent is in charge of another f*n roadmap to nowhere.

The Pentagon has already signed off $383 million...

Your tax dollars at work, and

Other examples of information war listed in the report include the creation of “Truth Squads” to provide public information when negative publicity, such as the Abu Ghraib torture scandal, hits US operations, and the establishment of “Humanitarian Road Shows”, which will talk up American support for democracy and freedom.

These must be the same folks who brought the "few bad apples" campaign which did so much to redeem us from the degradation of having a "president" who breaks the law by authorizing torture. A president who lies for war really needs a "Humanitarian Road Show," for an administration that definitely does not believe in democracy or freedom.

Maybe if the military wasn't so worried about how their corrupt polices would look, they could have afforded to have a fighter jet defend the homeland on 9-11. Money must be going down big rat holes.

[EVDebs]

105. That's Ronald Dumsfeld isn't it ? eom

[donkeyotay]

106. Was it Ronald? Was it Donald? Who was "the stupidest f*n guy on earth"?

and was that the same Dumbshit that some general said that if he had the last bullet on earth, he'd use it on him? Ronald Dumfuksfeld is an unmitigated failure. The man is a disaster. Leaving him in control of something he clearly can't drive... well, only an unelected monkey would ignore such stupendous incompetence. I can hardly wait to see Part II, War with Iran.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

100. Can you say PNAC?

For those of us who have read all the PNAC documents, this whole strategy of controling the net and flow of information is right out of their "Pax Americana" document.

One by one the Bush Administration has enacted the various strategies called for in the PNAC documents - they have achieved at least 70% of what they have wanted to for the past 20 years.

And then there was the very interesting "modern day Pearl Harbor" prediction.

And folks still wonder why MIHOP is viewed as a very real possibilty by many.

[norml]

109. I found the OP while Googling for PNAC news. It mentions PNAC here...

"This revolution in information warfare is merely an extension of the politics of the “neoconservative” Bush White House. Even before getting into power, key players in Team Bush were planning total military and political domination of the globe. In September 2000, the now notorious document Rebuilding America’s Defences – written by the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), a think-tank staffed by some of the Bush presidency’s leading lights – said that America needed a “blueprint for maintaining US global pre-eminence, precluding the rise of a great power-rival, and shaping the international security order in line with American principles and interests”.

The PNAC was founded by Dick Cheney, the vice-president; Donald Rumsfeld, the defence secretary; Bush’s younger brother, Jeb; Paul Wolfowitz, once Rumsfeld’s deputy and now head of the World Bank; and Lewis Libby, Cheney’s former chief of staff, now indicted for perjury in America.

Rebuilding America’s Defences also spoke of taking control of the internet. A heavily censored version of the document was released under Freedom of Information legislation to the National Security Archive at George Washington University in the US."

[eleny]

107. Time to invest in a mimeograph machine

[NVMojo]

108. We are the enemy. It's time for a revolution folks. Is this what it will

take to get people to throw these feckers out?

[Just Me]

110. Well, they've already been utilizing psy-ops. This is an expansion,...

,...of that operation. They HAVE to brainwash the masses otherwise their delusional vision can not be sustained.

[cyanide]

122. They already have closed down some web sites

I know a website that was closed down by the DOD .

The owner posted amateur porn in a closed membership section, and uncensored news about Iraq in a free to see section.

Many many soldiers sent in pics and news of what was really going on. The FEDS and DOD came charged him with pornography and national security issues -- shut him down.

It was an event that I observed with sadness because those young military people were posting real deal news. And most of them were against Bush.

We are so doomed. The government is and will always be attempting to control the last freedom the people have, the internet.

[harpo]

124. Bring it....they don't scare me!!!!

heads up their asses!!!