| Subject: Re: Eh? |
| From: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> |
| Date: 9/7/11, 17:48 |
| To: Daniel Conaway <dconaway@writershouse.com> |
Whats this mean:
the CIA secretly influenced the output of major domestic outlets for several decades
Output? Outlets? Can you clarify?
From: Barrett Brown [mailto:barriticus@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 5:21 PM
To: Gregg Housh
Cc: Daniel Conaway
Subject: Re: Eh?
Re: pg 24 query, replace those two paragraphs with this expanded version:
To the extent that anyone was paying attention, the implications were chilling. But after a few more articles prompted by the initial discovery of the USAF contract, this story, too, lost traction without having received such attention as was merited by the implications. Such implications are of concern not just to activists who might be silently investigated or actively harassed as more intelligence contractors sought to compete amongst each other for corporate clients, but to the public as a whole. In the U.S., Americans have been subject to an unknown degree of disinfo campaigns orchestrated by segments of the government, military, and especially the intelligence community. COINTELPRO, in which the FBI used illegal means to discredit activists in the '60s, and Operation Mockingbird, in which the CIA secretly influenced the output of major domestic outlets for several decades, are simply the best-known among those that have since been revealed. And the mentality held in common by many in government and modern intelligence contractors is such that campaigns of the sort are implemented even when the voting public might object. As former Lt. Col. George A. Crawford, a senior director at the increasingly-significant contractor Archimedes Global, wrote in 2001, Personnel skilled at conducting strategic information operations--to include psychological operations, public information, deception, media and computer network operations, and related activities--are important for victory. Despite robust DoD and Intelligence Community capabilities in this area, efforts to establish organizations that focus information operations have not been viewed as a positive development by the public or the media, who perceive government-sponsored information efforts with suspicion. Consequently, these efforts must take place away from public eyes. Archimedes, incidentally, comes up quite a bit in the 70,000 e-mails.
Contrary to the desires of those like Crawford who hold that deceiving the electorate is a legitimate military objective, representative government is only as good as the quality of the information the public receives; and though the motive to misinform that public has existed for as long as there's been a public to deceive, the means by which to deploy such disinformation were clearly multiplying both in efficiency and availability. Worse, those means were still largely unknown to most, and more effective by virtue of that invisibility. All in all, the glow from our victory over HBGary wore off as the dangers it represented became more clear.
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:
Gregg - Lol.
Dan - Does this work?"And so firms like Endgame Systems were increasingly being recruited to explain what they could sometimes in support of counterattacks planned by other firms."
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 4:06 PM, Gregg Housh <greggatghc@gmail.com> wrote:
He is a moron who wrote mostly about 4chan and who most people I know hate.
He is hated enough that some anons actually swat'd him. This term is sometimes unknown so I will explain it. Its when someone is so mad at you that they convince the swat team in your town that you have a hostage at your house. Usually they say its a young girl, 10 years old or so, and that you are unstable and anything could be happening. Once they are convinced of this they have to act, they usually rush with many guys armed and really mess the place up looking for the hostage.
He is actually living fear now: http://www.uproxx.com/webculture/2011/08/man-who-wrote-book-about-4chan-now-lives-in-fear-of-4chan/
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Daniel Conaway <dconaway@writershouse.com> wrote:
Wait for another edit
Hey, whos Cole Stryker? His book about 4Chan just pubd this week. Anything I need to be worried about / aware of as competition? Is he friendly to the cause ?
From: Gregg Housh [mailto:greggatghc@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 4:52 PM
To: Barrett Brown
Cc: Daniel Conaway
Subject: Re: Eh?
So is this the version I should go over tonight and double check? or am I waiting for another edit?
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:
Oops, I forgot one thing - the edit on "Sony to NATO." You want to change to your proposed edit of " After all, Anonymous has struck blows against foreign governments (Egypt, Libya, Tunisia), corporations (Sony, Visa, MasterCard) and governmental agencies (FBI, CIA, NATO) in the collective's ongoing campaign against injustice.
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:
Okay, here it is, with all of Gregg's edits actually implemented this time as well as the couple of line edits we did over the phone yesterday.
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:
Indeed.
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Daniel Conaway <dconaway@writershouse.com> wrote:
Dont rush, OK? Better that it be clean, truly. And youll be sure to take out that business about Gs neighbor, right?
From: Barrett Brown [mailto:barriticus@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 1:31 PM
To: Daniel Conaway
Subject: Re: Eh?
Give me an hour and I'll have it in, something came up suddenly.
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Daniel Conaway <dconaway@writershouse.com> wrote:
Hey, Barrett
I never got the revised proposalcan you send it?
Thanks,
Dan
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