By law, the U.S. government is barred from propagandizing within the country. While that hasn’t necessarily stopped them before, the Bush Administration has raised the art to a science. As well, they’ve reportedly been doing so out of Gitmo, perhaps a tacit acknowledgment that the practice is illegal under U.S. law, but hey, they’re not in the U.S. when they do it from there, right? At least, that’s what their legal department has long maintained in support of suspension of habeas corpus, human rights and long-held treaty agreements in relation to the detention of whoever they damn-well wish to hold without charges down there.
So they’ve been “vandalizing Wikipedia” and news sites across the web, according to a recent report at Wikileaks, which also offers the evidence…
Anybody doubt these same guys are working to post their propaganda in comments at websites like…oh, The BRAD BLOG for example? We’re sure the Bush DoJ will get right on it.
Never been prouder of our country.
(Hat-tip RAW STORY)
There was another story (via slashdot) that Wikileaks had exposed that an ip address of the US House of Representatives had hacked the Wikipedia entry about the Iraq war and the “evidence” used to justify it, namely Iraq’s ties to al Qaeda. The hacked version claimed that Hussein-al Qaeda ties were well established and that doubts about this were only “alleged.” In other words, doubts were alleged and an links between Hussein and al Qaeda were not alleged but known.
The lie-masters have to do their doctorate work somewhere guys and gals.
Otherwise they can’t put a Phd behind their names.
Problem is that leading a false life where a person says one thing but lives another leads to self-destruction.
You are doin a heckuva job death merchants, lie-mongers, and peace-haters, even tho some of you cling to some sanity in the fog these daze.
Excellent points Dredd. As to the last article about our retired military officers pressing congress not to sanction torture, I have this to say; those who face the real chance of being tortured should carry the most weight in this debate. How dare people who don’t stand a bat’s chance in hell of facing such a gruesome prospect divorce themselves from the very real prospect of those living under the horrible stress of combat already, now add that constant, worse than death fear to their daily lives. Anyone who is a true American in spirit (or sane human being for that matter) knows torture is wrong, period.
Just to make sure my last post is clear: the retired military I applaude for their action, the congress should listen to them.