Violating the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948?

Files Prove Pentagon is Profiling Reporters | Stars and Stripes

Here's what you need to know: “It’s troubling that the military is contracting a private PR firm, paid with U.S. taxpayer dollars, to profile individual reporters,” said one servicemember who declined to be identified for fear of official retribution. “It shows utter contempt for the Constitution, which we in the service pledge our lives to defend.”

These guys are an embarrassment to our national security & continue to play weird little (self-dealing) games in that dangerous intersection where "information operations," PsyOps and Public Affairs intersect. There's a law governing how this sort of stuff is done. We really don't want the military/government propagandizing our own citizens. Really, we don't!

I understand that Rendon was dumped by the CIA under a cloud years ago -- & then wandered down the George Washington Parkway to peddle their schtick at the Pentagon. Judicial Watch obtained US Navy documents detailing Rendon's involvement in trying to influence the outcome of a public vote on the Vieques bombing range. Now, that's "creepy" -- the Navy hires a PR firm to run an influence campaign attempting to alter the outcome of a public vote? I'm eagerly awaiting any legal challenge to Rendon's (or other's) "information" efforts. It's very encouraging that Stars & Stripes had the courage to print this article.

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