NDAA Legalized The Use Of Propaganda On American Public

From 2012 but probably still relevant (Las Vegas & FL shootings, crisis actors, etc):

>The newest version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) includes an amendment that would legalize the use of propaganda on the American public, reports Michael Hastings of BuzzFeed.
>The amendment — proposed by Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) and Adam Smith (D-Wash.) and passed in the House last Friday afternoon — would effectively nullify the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948, which explicitly forbids information and psychological operations aimed at influencing U.S. public opinion.
>Thornberry said that the current law "ties the hands of America's diplomatic officials, military, and others by inhibiting our ability to effectively communicate in a credible way," according to Buzzfeed.
>The vote came two days after a federal judged ruled that an indefinite detention provision in the annual defense bill was unconstitutional.
>Lt. Col. Daniel Davis, who released a highly critical report regarding the distortion of truth by senior military officials in Iraq and Afghanistan, dedicated a section of his report to Information Operations (IO) and states that after Desert Storm the military wanted to transform IO "into a core military competency on a par with air, ground, maritime and special operations."
>Davis defines IO as "the integrated employment of electronic warfare (EW), computer network operations (CNO), psychological operations (PSYOP), military deception (MILDEC), and operations security (OPSEC), in concert with specified supporting and related capabilities, to influence, disrupt, corrupt or usurp adversarial human and automated decision making while protecting our own."

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>IO are primarily used to target foreign audiences, but Davis cites numerous senior leaders who want to (in the words of Colonel Richard B. Leap) "protect a key friendly center of gravity, to wit US national will" by repealing the Smith-Mundt Act to allow the direct deployment of these tactics on the American public.
>Davis quotes Brigadier General Ralph O. Baker — the Pentagon officer responsible for the Department of Defense's Joint Force Development (i.e. Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines) — who defines IO as activities undertaken to "shape the essential narrative of a conflict or situation and thus affect the attitudes and behaviors of the targeted audience" and equates descriptions of combat operations with standard marketing strategies:
>For years, commercial advertisers have based their advertisement strategies on the premise that there is a positive correlation between the number of times a consumer is exposed to product advertisement and that consumer's inclination to sample the new product. The very same principle applies to how we influence our target audiences when we conduct COIN.
>Davis subsequently explains the "cumulative failure of our nation's major media in every category" as they continually interviewed only those senior U.S. officials who had top-level access, even as the officials given that clearance were required to stick to "talking points" given to them by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
>If the NDAA goes into effect in its current form, the State Department and Pentagon can go beyond manipulating mainstream media outlets and directly disseminate campaigns of misinformation to the U.S. public.

Is that you from yesterday Burger King?
Fuck Obama for legalising the use of propaganda on American people by their government and media! I was outraged when I herd this but no one cared at the time. Keep making this thread

>would effectively nullify the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948, which explicitly forbids information and psychological operations aimed at influencing U.S. public opinion.

So, if a psyop is a precursor to a military op, and the government is using psyops on us....

Does that mean they are planning to invade us?

Dude...

>use of propaganda on the American public
"on", not "against". We are in an information war. Time to unplug the deplorables. Buckle up, anons.

You will literally NEVER see liberals talk about this. You show them the wikipedia article and they start having a seizure.

Terrifying levels of denial.

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I know, right?

>mfw cointel gaslit themselves

>coordinate and synchronize counter-propaganda efforts
So, anti-spying basically?

what is the current budget of IO?

There is no such thing as counter propaganda. There's a reason it was pushed through before Trump got into office.

To be fair, many conservatives do the saame thing with Bush.

that's not easy to verify, and it's also growing at a quadratic rate

They already have invaded our minds, the whole idea is to avoid using an actual army.

Checked, but what about counter-propaganda to a foreign country's attempt at spreading propaganda within our country?

It's all just propaganda, innit? Stating truths is a good thing, but doing it with an agenda is when it crosses the line into propaganda. People assume propaganda has to be lies, it doesn't.

Keep fuckin that chicken aussie.

Propaganda believed to come from a foreign country but actually comes from within our own government guised as a foreign entity. 4D chess at max, but still over normies' heads. Maybe related to the "Russian collusion" narrative too. Who the fuck knows anymore?

But to answer your question: I think nurturing a country's self-image is an important, but delicate line. How much is too much, where do you begin to quantify that?

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Well that explains the Black Panther reviews.

Bipartisan

FIRST CITIZENS UNITED AND NOW THIS D:

Now Trump gets to use it. Sucks for them.

No he doesn't. It will be used by the FBI and DOJ against the next candidate that isn't apart of their club. This was done to Trump but now its legal so they can increase the scope. It wont ever be used against a republican or Democrat ever again less two owned candidates make it to the election.