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A Pretext For War (295-297)
Rendon Corporation:
The firm is headed by John W. Rendon, a rumpled man often seen in a beret and military fatigues, who calls himself “an information warrior and a perception manager.” Its specialty is manipulating thought and spreading propaganda...Soon after the attacks of September 11, the company received a $100,000 a month contract from the Pentagon to offer media strategy advice. Among the agencies to whom it provided recommendations was the Orwellian-sounding Office of Strategic Influence, another Feith creation...The Rendon Group has taken in a great deal of cash vilifying Saddam Hussein...The entire story may have been little more than a U.S.-sponsored psychological warfare effort--The Rendon Group’s specialty--to gin up the the American public’s fear over Saddam Hussein. If so, it would have been illegal under U.S. law, which forbids the use of taxpayer money to propagandize the American public. “I think what you’re seeing,” said Ritter, “is the need for the United States government to turn to commercial enterprises like The Rendon Group to do the kind of lying and distortion of truth in terms of peddling disinformation to the media that the government normally can’t do for itself.”
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BTW, these guys will never be investigated although they are far worse than Armstrong Williams. I believe it is out of fear of retaliation, or because they work both sides of the aisle.
For some unknown reason, I can no longer stream AAR...it's driving me wild.
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