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Army Deploys Psy-Ops on U.S. Senators

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The U.S. Army illegally ordered a team of soldiers specializing in "psychological operations" to manipulate visiting American senators into providing more troops and funding for the war, Rolling Stone has learned à ‚¬" and when an officer tried to stop the operation, he was railroaded by military investigators.
"My job in psy-ops is to play with peopleà ‚¬ „ s heads, to get the enemy to behave the way we want them to behave," says Lt. Colonel Michael Holmes, the leader of the IO unit, who received an official reprimand after bucking orders. "Ià ‚¬ „ m prohibited from doing that to our own people. When you ask me to try to use these skills on senators and congressman, youà ‚¬ „ re crossing a line."
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Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which since 2005 existed for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. Our goal: to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Because the problems with electronic (computerized) voting systems include a lack of (more...)
 

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