“We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.” -William Casey, CIA Director 1981-1987Recently, National Security Agency Director General Paul M. Nakasone said that foreign adversaries are weaponizing information, but what he didn't tell people was that our government has in its alleged efforts to counter that propaganda, has legalized propaganda against the US population.
Nakasone, who heads both NSA and Cyber Command said recently that both the military and the nation as a whole are taking steps to counter foreign information warfare and to use information operations against adversaries. Specifically, he's talking about Russia and China.
The point: both of those nations have taken steps to control information on the Internet in order to prevent their populations from being influenced by the US.
He was talking about the Arab Spring uprisings that began in 2011. Nakasone says they were fueled by social media and the internet and they led to the unseating of several governments throughout the Middle East and North Africa.
"We looked at this as an indicator of how powerful a free and open Internet can be in the world and we look at this from that lens... but I would also say that our adversaries looked at it from a completely different lens: as an existential threat to their existence." -National Security Agency Director General Paul M. NakasoneThat's what Nakasone said, but what he didn't tell you and what you may not know is that the US government has countered the influence, they say, of foreign propaganda by passing a law that allows our government to propagandize its own people.
The 2016 version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), signed by Barack Hussein Obama Soetoro Sobarkah, included a provision called the Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act of 2016. It was sponsored by Ohio Senator Rob Portman.
https://freedomoutpost.com/is-the-us-engaging-in-propaganda-against-its-own-people/
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