The Obama Justice Department's Secret Blogging Team... Is it Illegal?

Publius Forum ^ | 10/07/09 | Warner Todd Huston

[Mobile Vulgus]

Obama's Attorney General, Eric Holder, has apparently hired a cadre of left-wing, Democrat campaign bloggers to troll through the Internet looking for news stories and blog posts that denigrate the Obama agenda. After such websites are found it is the job of these secret lefty bloggers to leave comments that come to the support of Obamaism in the comments sections. It seems that Eric Holder has created his own little propaganda unit in a valiant effort to become the Bloggi Riefenstahl of the Obama era.

As reported at The Muffled Oar, a blog that first broke the story of Holder's secretive blogging unit -- dubbed the "Blog Squad" by blogger Isaac Muzzey -- Holder has housed this unit in the Office of Public Affairs at the Department of Justice. It also appears that former John Edwards staffer Tracy Russo is part of this special unit.

A site called whorunsgov.com reported back in May that DOJ hired Russo to do "media outreach for the whole department." It is, according to whorunsgov.com, the first time such an effort has been made at DOJ.

Of Russo's duties, The Muffled Oar says:

Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...

[anglian]

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[RummyChick]

check out post 199. Someone asked him if he worked for the DOJ

He was trying to sound authoritative. I busted his BS.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2353627/posts?page=199#199

He probably does work for the DOJ.

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

When I read this last week the article said they post here, to TRY to show Holder is not a partisan hack. LOL.

HI AG HOLDER BASEMENT posters, get a life it is worthless. Post all you like the truth always wins in the end!

[Freedom2specul8]

Ping...

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

say hi to the Holder basement bloggers.

[anglian]

“”We have written a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder outlining our concerns and requesting that he act quickly to address this wave of domestic terrorism.”’ A copy of the letter is here with the exhibits A-F here: http://www.velvetrevolution.us/stop_terror/

[Freedom2specul8]

LoL z o t slowly and swiftly.

[Freedom2specul8]

{{Waving!}}

[Trillian]

Will they be fined if they don’t say how much the government is paying them?

[bamahead]

If indeed this is what DOJ media outreach does it would most certainly qualify as “astroturfing.

Which would make it HIGHLY illegal - taxpayer dollars being spent to explicitly promote a party's partisan political agenda...no different than the NEA/Yosi Seargant debacle.



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[444Flyer]

“...say hi to the Holder basement bloggers.”

I'm wondering what that pays? Minimum wage plus the occasional doggie bisquit for hitting quotas?

[SoDak]

I’m completely convinced that Zero’s administration, and not just at Justice, has hundreds, and maybe thousands, of people whose job is to populate chat rooms, forums, and any and all comment sites to promote Obama and his agenda, and to head off opposition. It all started like clockwork back during the primaries, and has continued.

[Nachum]

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[Deb]

The Left, and their deputies in the media, went nuts when our military tried to create a group of information experts in Iraq to counter-act insurgent propaganda. But nothing will be reported about this.

[I am Richard Brandon]

"And the Republicans seem so limp, out of their league, and unresponsive."

Maybe they should move from one-time Viagra onto 24-hour Cialis!

[VOA]

“The Obama Justice Department’s Secret Blogging Team... Is it Illegal?”

My one disappointment with Glenn Beck, Hannity, O’Reilly, etc:
Who pays these covert operators and how much, e.g., the blogging
team and our Czars?

Are we paying for it with our coerced tax dollars?
Are they working for nothing, but getting checks from Soros/The Tides
Foundation?
Or are they even more dangerous: working for lunch money because
they are “true believers”?

“Follow The Money” with the Czars and Obama’a White House Plumbers
might be the most incindiary/explosive episode Beck, Hannity, etc.
might ever air.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

((waves))

[Freddd]

LOL, based on what?

[Freedom56v2]

Can this be legal

[JerseyDvl]

These days we have two options- inept vs. Evil.