Top Obama Staffer Promots 9/11 Propaganda

Max Eternity - In another blow to the transparency of the Obama Administration's campaign trail declaration that it would be the most transparent administration ever, it has come to light that one of the Presidents high-ranking staffers--Harvard law professor, Cass Sustein--is promoting a pro-propaganda policy, which he has re branded as "cognitive infiltration." Sustein says this is required, particularly when dealing with individuals who reject the official government story on the events of 9/11, because those who disagree, who believe the US Government may have been complicit, are coming to such conclusions not based on factual data, but a poor knowledge of science and global affairs. The Raw Story reports:

In a 2008 academic paper, President Barack Obama's appointee to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs advocated "cognitive infiltration" of groups that advocate "conspiracy theories" like the ones surrounding 9/11.

Cass Sunstein, a Harvard law professor, co-wrote an academic article entitled "Conspiracy Theories: Causes and Cures," in which he argued that the government should stealthily infiltrate groups that pose alternative theories on historical events via "chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space groups and attempt to undermine" those groups.

Sunstein, whose article focuses largely on the 9/11 conspiracy theories, suggests that the government "enlist nongovernmental officials in the effort to rebut the theories. It might ensure that credible independent experts offer the rebuttal, rather than government officials themselves. There is a tradeoff between credibility and control, however. The price of credibility is that government cannot be seen to control the independent experts."

Download a PDF of the article here.

Sunstein argued that "government might undertake (legal) tactics for breaking up the tight cognitive clusters of extremist theories." He suggested that "government agents (and their allies) might enter chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space groups and attempt to undermine percolating conspiracy theories by raising doubts about their factual premises, causal logic or implications for political action." Read more.