Report: "Mind control" on U.S. Senators

Pauline Jelinek and Lolita C. Baldor (AP), Feb. 24, 2011

The Bush-Cheney-Obama administration's pretext for wars is blind patriotism.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan is ordering an investigation into charges that an army unit trained in psychological operations [PsyOps] was improperly told to manipulate American senators. The reason? To get more money and troops for the war [just as the military did during US "conflicts" in Central America and Vietnam, according to former CIA station-chief-turned-whistleblower Philip Agee].

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A senator allegedly targeted said Thursday that he's confident there will be a review of the facts, but played down the idea that he was manipulated.

Carefully orchestrated manipulation of media makes us all victims of US war (glossynews.com).

The staff of Lt. Gen. William Caldwell, head of the effort to train Afghan security forces, ordered the information operations unit to compile profiles, voting records, and other information on visiting lawmakers to leverage in a campaign to get more assistance, said a story Thursday on Rolling Stone's website.

It says the campaign also improperly targeted the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen, and others. Caldwell's office denied that the command used information operations cell to influence distinguished visitors. More>>

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Admiral Mike Mullen, Jan. 2011 (AFP/AP)

U.S. probes if senators targeted by Afghan psy-ops unit
(Reuters) The military said on today it will investigate accusations that a psychological operations unit was used in Afghanistan to try to persuade visiting senators to increase war funding. The accusations... quot[ed] the leader of the [PsyOps] Army unit, Lieutenant Colonel Michael Holmes, who objected to what he saw as an illegal use of his team's skills on American citizens.

The need for mundane "enlightenment"
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