Posted on 12/02/2016 10:53:32 AM PST by Jaded
H.R.6393, Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017, passed in the House of Representatives on November 30.
The legislation deals with a number of intelligence-related issues, including Russian propaganda, or what the government calls propaganda.
Section 501 calls for the government to counter “measures by Russia to exert covert influence … carried out in coordination with, or at the behest of, political leaders or the security services of the Russian Federation and the role of the Russian Federation has been hidden or not acknowledged publicly.”
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Test of HR 6393 https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/114/hr6393/text
Title V—Matters relating to foreign countries
Sec. 501. Committee to counter active measures by the Russian Federation to exert covert influence over peoples and governments.
Sec. 502. Limitation on travel of accredited diplomats and consulars of the Russian Federation in the United States from their diplomatic post.
Sec. 503. Study and report on enhanced intelligence and information sharing with Open Skies Treaty member states.
What about all the propaganda we have listened to for the last 8 years?
Propagandists don’t like the competition.
They liked it when it was Soviet Russia, however.
Could somebody in the Senate please add an amendment that also includes propaganda by the MSM.
And Correct The Record Trolls?
What about all the propaganda we send over there?
And Republicans wonder why they are not elected to office. On top of it, most do not recognize that the big Republican gains are because of Trump, and only because of Trump. Left to their own devices the Democrats would be in total control right now. In other words this is about as worthless as teats on a boar hog.
This the same congress that made it legal for the US Govt to use propaganda against US Citizens? That congress?
So the House is concerned about Pooty Poot’s peeps acting like our MSM?
The democrats make Russia interfering in our election their main theme. SO our ahole Repubs immediately move to validate the dem narrative. Real bright.
What sort of “measures” are they intending the US to take?
Will this lead to censorship of whatever the government declares to be “Russian” influence?
Can I still read RT any longer, or will that be blocked?
What about Chinese propaganda?
Oh the irony of leftists suddenly taking a stance against Russian propaganda.
Oh I thought this was about Hillary. /s
It’s what they do.
The should be forced to specify what Russian Propaganda is.
Specifics.
Is it propaganda because it’s published by a Russian media outlet? Or, must it be a Russian publication which publishes articles with just some false information? All false information?
And, what about US media outlets that publish information that was derived from some Russian source? Again, should the Ministry of Truth review all information published in the US for this secretly provided...or better, motivated information?
I am not surprised to see such a bill come from the Republications in Congress, but I am still disappointed by it.
Stupid, evil bastards.
Since the Kremlin’s seizure of Crimea in March 2014, setting off what I’ve termed Cold War 2.0 between Russia and the West, propaganda has played a key role in President Vladimir Putin’s new aggressiveness. There’s general consensus that the Kremlin’s weaponized propaganda represents a significant component of Russia’s arsenal in the shadow conflict of ideas, information, espionage, and secret warriors that I’ve called Special War.
There’s really nothing new about this except how the Internet gives such propaganda unprecedented reach, quickly. This is merely an online version of the well-honed Cold War practice of what Kremlin spies term Active Measures, meaning the dissemination of lies and semi-lies at the West for political effect. More properly it’s called disinformation – dezinformatsiya or deza for short among Kremlin insiders — a murky amalgam of fact and sordid fiction.
Moscow churned out disinformation down to the collapse of the Soviet Union, often with success. They had little trouble finding credulous Western media willing to report their deceptions uncritically. One of the KGB’s more notorious lies of the 1980s, that the American government maliciously created the AIDS virus, still reverberates today in certain quarters.
http://observer.com/2015/11/obama-fails-to-fight-putins-propaganda-machine/
And what about Saudi propaganda? Or do we just let the Saudis buy our politicians with our oil money like they always have?
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