{"id":5436,"date":"2007-12-13T12:10:42","date_gmt":"2007-12-13T20:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=5436"},"modified":"2007-12-13T12:40:28","modified_gmt":"2007-12-13T20:40:28","slug":"report-us-government-propagandizing-internet-american-public-from-gitmo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5436","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: U.S. Government Propagandizing Internet, American Public, from Gitmo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By law, the U.S. government is barred from propagandizing within the country. While that hasn&#8217;t necessarily stopped them before, the Bush Administration has raised the art to a science. As well, they&#8217;ve reportedly been doing so out of Gitmo, perhaps a tacit acknowledgment that the practice <i>is<\/i> illegal under U.S. law, but hey, they&#8217;re not in the U.S. when they do it from there, right? At least, that&#8217;s what their legal department has long maintained in support of suspension of <i>habeas corpus<\/i>, human rights and long-held treaty agreements in relation to the detention of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/world\/2007-12-12-guantanamo-prisoners_N.htm?csp=34\">whoever they damn-well wish<\/a> to hold without charges down there.<\/p>\n<p>So they&#8217;ve been &#8220;vandalizing Wikipedia&#8221; and news sites across the web, according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/wikileaks.org\/wiki\/Wikileaks_busts_Gitmo_propaganda_team\/?\">recent report at Wikileaks<\/a>, which also offers the evidence&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">WASHINGTON&#8211;The US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay has been caught conducting covert propaganda attacks on the internet. The attacks, exposed this week in a report by the government transparency group <a href=\"http:\/\/wikileaks.org\/wiki\/Wikileaks\">Wikileaks<\/a>, include deleting detainee ID numbers from Wikipedia last month, the systematic posting of unattributed &#8220;self praise&#8221; comments on news organization web sites in response to negative press, boosting pro-Guantanamo stories on the internet news site Digg and even modifying Fidel Castro&#8217;s encyclopedia article to describe the Cuban president as &#8220;an admitted transexual&#8221; [sic].<\/div>\n<p>Anybody doubt these same guys are working to post their propaganda in comments at websites like&#8230;oh, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.BradBlog.com\">The BRAD BLOG<\/a> for example? We&#8217;re sure <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5435\">the Bush DoJ<\/a> will get right on it.<\/p>\n<p>Never been prouder of our country.<\/p>\n<p>(<em>Hat-tip <a href=\"http:\/\/rawstory.com\/\">RAW STORY<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By law, the U.S. government is barred from propagandizing within the country. While that hasn&#8217;t necessarily stopped them before, the Bush Administration has raised the art to a science. As well, they&#8217;ve reportedly been doing so out of Gitmo, perhaps a tacit acknowledgment that the practice is illegal under U.S. law, but hey, they&#8217;re not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,263],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cia","category-guantanamo-bay","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5436"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=5436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}