[mudblood]

This is a big deal, its huge. This is tax-dollar PAID FOR propoganda from our government.

[Carley]

PRAVDA LIVES

[marstegreg]

Why don’t they just do the right thing, instead of doing the wrong thing and then spinning it. It’s alot cheaper
( for us )

[SE Mom]

NEA, DoJ...next?

[CriticalJ]

I was hoping this was satire. Doesn’t appear to be.

[Linda Frances]

Is it legal?

[GeronL]

Wow. First the NEA and now this.

The government and The Party are now one and the same.

[kcvl]

Tracy Russo currently directs the new media strategy at the United States Department of Justice. Prior to joining the Justice Department she formed Russo Strategies, LLC, a progressive political consulting firm that specialized in new media strategies.

During the 2008 presidential primary, as the chief blogger and deputy director of online communications for the John Edwards campaign, she directed and executed an online communications and outreach strategy. She also helped to develop and execute an aggressive online fundraising strategy and mobile media plan.

Prior to joining the Edwards campaign, Russo worked at the DNC. She has been a featured speaker at the YearlyKos Convention, the Take Back America Conference and the Center for American Progress' Internet Advocacy Roundtable and Personal Democracy Forum. In addition, she has worked partnership with a variety of organizations, including the DNC, DLCC, EMILY's List, Campaigns and Elections Magazine, and the New Organizing Institute and George Washington University training individuals at home and abroad in the best practices of online engagement .

[RowdyFFC]

They’ve been doing this for two years on the CBS website. I called them on it because there was one guy with multiple nic names posting 24/7 through the campaign, and now the administration. Every time I mentioned it in a post, CBS banned me. I’ve been banned over 350 times by CBS, including three times yesterday after posting negative comments regarding this administration and the democratic hypocrites.

Their ilk were caught on several blogspots, including our own, and quickly banned. One woman who started posting on obamacrimes.com claimed to be a lawyer and kept making ridiculus legal assumptions about Berg’s cases. She also was posting 24/7 which puzzled me regarding the obvious neglect of her legal practice. When our website opened she followed us over there and we were able to get her ISP address and traced it to some small time political candidate assistance group and come to find out she answered the phones there.

These people are rabid, almost like an infestation of bad bugs or something. Also, reminds me of a pack of hyaenas ripping and tearing at flesh intent on destroying free thinking individuals.

[BP2]

WHOA — this is not right — and I bet there are some LEGAL and codified ethical breeches with this as well!

This is PROPAGANDA, just like the National Endowment for the Arts scandal, by our own government against the First Amendment — and MORE SPECIFICALLY, by our Justice Department which should be politically-neutral.

Here's the whole text:

Anonymous DOJ Blogger Campaign Attacks Media and Critics Exclusive News from the Muffled Oar

The Department of Justice has hired a team of partisan Democrat campaign bloggers to work at the Department. The Muffled Oar has learned this decision was treated with a great deal of skepticism both inside the career ranks at the Department but also among some Obama loyalists who expressed concern that such a decision would lend itself to the growing appearance that the Holder Justice Department is more political than the Bush Justice Department was ever accused of being. Tracy Russo is one such blogger from the campaign of John Edwards. The unit is housed in the Office of Public Affairs. Not only is the Department of Justice Blog Squad going to reach out to nontraditional media like TPM Muckraker or the Muffled Oar, but they are also tasked with placing anonymous comments at conservative leaning blogs such as the Free Republic.

They are also tasked with posting anonymous comments, or comments under pseudonyms, at newspaper websites with stories critical of the Department of Justice, Holder and President Obama. One conservative editor recently told the Muffled Oar that they have noticed a significant increase in the number and aggressiveness of comments to stories critical of the Holder Justice Department. “There is clearly a designed effort to rebut stories that are exposing the Holder Justice Department as more political than the last. We’ve seen a change in the pattern of anonymous emails we receive and comments posted at our paper’s webpage.”

One shivers at the thought of a team of Department of Justice Bloggers anonymously trolling the web to spin the message of a President. It is particularly terrifying when those same anonymous government employees at the Department attack media outlets and newspapers anonymously. How much longer before the Blog Squad operates in the open to intimidate political opponents and critics?

I KNEW it seemed the tone of some of the postings on Free Republic had changed very recently! We need to contact the author and get more proof. If it all pans out, I smell another Obama scandal — and possibly lawsuit — in the works ...

[pissant]

Anyone surprised?

[null and void]

Should we ping the trolls?

[null and void]

Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression

17. Flood the Internet with agents. This is the answer to the question, “What could possibly motivate a person to spend hour upon hour on Internet news groups defending the government and/or the press and harassing genuine critics?” Don't the authorities have defenders enough in all the newspapers, magazines, radio, and television? One would think refusing to print critical letters and screening out serious callers or dumping them from radio talk shows would be control enough, but, obviously, it is not.

[BunnySlippers]

BUMP. I hope Breitbart picks this up. Does he have an email?

[WellyP]

I just sent this to Drudge!

[Cicero]

Well, I suppose there’s nothing illegal in Obama calling on his moonbat supporters to work for him by trolling in places like FR. That’s their right, and it’s FR’s right to give them the boot when they are caught.

But it’s something else when they are hired on by the Department of Justice. The DoJ is supposed to be about justice and law. It’s not the Department of Propaganda, and they have no business paying people federal salaries and perks to spread propaganda.

Yes, when Bush was in power the RNC sometimes fought the political game—rather fecklessly—but they did it on their own dime, not the taxpayers’ dime.

This is illegal. And evil. And not a surprise, coming from the Fraudmeister in Chief.

[Grampa Dave]

Many of us for over a decade have felt that the left has paid whom we refer to as trolls to post on FR and other conservative sites.

We have seen some sites fold under their attacks, or we have left the sites do to the outrageous control the trolls end up having.

I’m sure they are of the same ilk of those who write similiar letters to the editors of local rags defending Obamdinejad, his health sham and other shams.

This is just another example why every real Freeper should be contributing monthly to Free Republic to fight these bastards.

[Danae]

I cannot wait for this administration to be just obliterated.

BUSH was as ethical as John the Baptist compared to Obama!

[Jedidah]

Beck should be all over this. I don’t know how to send him a tip. Anyone?

[End Times Sentinel]

Folks, if this is true, this is something big.

This isn’t a joke or satire. If you feel compelled, you may want to ping your lists.

[GOPJ]

The unit is housed in the Office of Public Affairs. Not only is the Department of Justice Blog Squad going to reach out to nontraditional media like TPM Muckraker or the Muffled Oar, but they are also tasked with placing anonymous comments at conservative leaning blogs such as the Free Republic.

Buckhead - is there anything that can be done?