BBC: US plans to 'fight the net' revealed

[FourScore]

On Edit: I just noticed that the date is from January 27, 2006, but somehow I never heard about this last year...maybe some of you know about it already.

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

"...Bloggers Beware...

The declassified document is called "Information Operations Roadmap". It was obtained by the National Security Archive at George Washington University using the Freedom of Information Act. Officials in the Pentagon wrote it in 2003. The Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, signed it..."

SNIP

"...Perhaps the most startling aspect of the roadmap is its acknowledgement that information put out as part of the military's psychological operations, or Psyops, is finding its way onto the computer and television screens of ordinary Americans.

"Information intended for foreign audiences, including public diplomacy and Psyops, is increasingly consumed by our domestic audience," it reads. "Psyops messages will often be replayed by the news media for much larger audiences, including the American public..."

SNIP

"...Public awareness of the US military's information operations is low, but it's growing - thanks to some operational clumsiness. Late last year, it emerged that the Pentagon had paid a private company, the Lincoln Group, to plant hundreds of stories in Iraqi newspapers. The stories - all supportive of US policy - were written by military personnel and then placed in Iraqi publications..."

SNIP

"...When it describes plans for electronic warfare, or EW, the document takes on an extraordinary tone.

It seems to see the internet as being equivalent to an enemy weapons system.

"Strategy should be based on the premise that the Department will 'fight the net' as it would an enemy weapons system," it reads. The slogan "fight the net" appears several times throughout the roadmap..."

SNIP

And, in a grand finale, the document recommends that the United States should seek the ability to "provide maximum control of the entire electromagnetic spectrum".

US forces should be able to "disrupt or destroy the full spectrum of globally emerging communications systems, sensors, and weapons systems dependent on the electromagnetic spectrum".

Consider that for a moment..."

[Mr Rabble]

1. "Full Spectrum Dominance".

The internet, electricity, and space.

There is no potential battleground that has not been considered.

[John Q. Citizen]

3. Yes, an empire must consider all these things. Total control is the goal.

[bobthedrummer]

14. Literally hearts and minds.

"Electromagnetic Radiation (emr) Weapons: As Powerful As The Atomic Bomb"
by Cheryl Welsh February 2001
http://www.mindjustice.org/emr13.htm



"Mind Games"
by Sharon Weinberger
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/10/AR2007011001399_pf.html

[Warren Stupidity]

2. "Psyops, is finding its way onto the computer and television screens of ordinary Americans"

Ya think?

[Bluebear]

4. I am not shocked in the least. Not in the least. nt

[Double T]

5. Do not adjust your set..............the military industrial complex........

has taken over control of our government and declared 'US' the ENEMY OF THE STATE. Looks like a 'net revolution' may be in order. All able bodied bloggers man your Keyboards of Mass Destruction.

[illinoisprogressive]

6. they want to destroy just the liberal part I'll bet

[bobthedrummer]

7. Yes, it's been going on for quite awhile and here's some background on this reality.

Human Network Attacks
http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/fmso/humannet.htm

"Reality vs. perception management:the tinfoil controversy" from 1-5-2006
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x71919

[bobthedrummer]

8. A lot of what has been discussed here was dismissed and ridiculed

(some of it was deserving of that) yet quite a bit of what was discussed years ago has become very obvious.

Here's another thread that deserves consideration today.

"The Pentagon's Plan for Tracking Everything That Moves" started by G_j 7-11-2003
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x11350

[bananas]

9. Maybe that's where all the 'house' threads came from. nt

[bobthedrummer]

10. Yep, that's very probable. n/t

[bobthedrummer]

11. Here's the document referenced by BBC-from the National Security Archive

"Rumsfeld's Roadmap to Propaganda"
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB177/index.htm

And tonight Rumsfeld and Cambone and their friends may be destroying evidence in their taxpayer supported "transitional office" instead of being where they all belong, in prison awaiting trial.

[bobthedrummer]

12. If Adm McConnell becomes DNI this will only become much worse

he's all about information warfare and worse.

"Spy Chief Nominee Faces Ethical Thicket" by Ted Bridis
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,,-6382747,00.html

fair use cited

[bobthedrummer]

13. Most of the Committee had their National Prayer Breakfast and are

not questioning McConnell-they're mostly enthralled by the military background, which is fine, but this is just not critical questioning at all.

It's mostly a "welcome back" ceremony-Sen.Wyden did present the best lines of questions dealing with the politicization and selective cherry picking aka lies.

Feingold asked him directly if the Decider had violated laws under the Constitution and McConnell became aware of it would he share it with the Committee, and Feingold continued to pursue very direct and deeply knowledgable questioning.

But it appears a shoe in, by an Intelligence Committee denied access to vital documents related to its oversight responsibility by the BFEE's HOMELAND(tm).