[GPSCC-chat] Government program to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations of political opponents

[Gerry Gras]

Related items:

"Western Spy Agencies Infiltrating, Warping World of Online Activism"
"Latest Snowden documents show extent to which GCHQ has gone to 
'manipulate, deceive, and destroy reputations' of online targets"
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/02/25-0

"4 Darknesses: Internet being Manipulated, Deceived by Western Intel Trolls"
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/02/25-1

Gerry


Spencer Graves wrote:
> Hello, All:
>
>
>        The US Army recently attempted to recruit a group of anti-war
> protesters and push them to become violent to discredit the antiwar
> movement.  Those allegations were made by Glenn Crespo and his attorney
> Larry Hildes in a lawsuit filed against the US Army, according to a
> segment on, "Inside the Army Spy Ring & Attempted Entrapment of Peace
> Activists, Iraq Vets, Anarchists" in Democracy Now for February 25, 2014
> (http://www.democracynow.org/2014/2/25/exclusive_inside_the_army_spy_ring).
>
>
>        This is only one example of they type of activities pursued by
> the "Five Eyes" intelligence collaboration between the five major
> anglophone countries, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United
> Kingdom, an the United States.  This is documented in an article on "How
> Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and
> Destroy Reputations" by Glenn Greenwald, Feb. 24, 2014, in
> "firstslook.org"
> (https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation and
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes).
>
>
>        I believe this calls for political action to dramatically
> restrict the ability of the government to keep secrets, as outlined in
> my blog on "Restrict government secrecy not data collection" at
> "http://sanjosepeace.wordpress.com".
>
>
>        Be well and be outraged.
>        Spencer
>
>
> p.s.  You may know that "firstlook.org" is a new Internet news
> organization founded by eBay billionaire, Pierre Omidyar, with
> collaborators like Jeremy Scahill, author of "Dirty Wars", and Glenn
> Greenwald, author of numerous stories about the US government activities
> based on information from Ed Snowden.
>
>