{"id":193,"date":"2002-02-20T21:14:24","date_gmt":"2002-02-21T04:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/02\/the-nando-times-pentagon-says\/"},"modified":"2002-02-20T21:14:24","modified_gmt":"2002-02-21T04:14:24","slug":"the-nando-times-pentagon-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/02\/20\/the-nando-times-pentagon-says\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nando Times: Pentagon says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nandotimes.com\/politics\/story\/261299p-2431505c.html\">The Nando Times: Pentagon says new office won&#8217;t deliberately spread lies<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWASHINGTON (February 20, 2002 3:55 p.m. EST) &#8211; Pentagon officials on Wednesday denied planning to use a new Office of Strategic Influence to plant erroneous information in the news media to promote U.S. war goals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Pentagon does not issue disinformation to the foreign press or any press,&#8221; Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Too bad &#8211; I was looking forward to some standard-issue, government-produced fiction; the civilian stuff&#8217;s getting too predictable. But it probably would have read like government cheese tastes.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nando Times: Pentagon says new office won&#8217;t deliberately spread lies WASHINGTON (February 20, 2002 3:55 p.m. EST) &#8211; Pentagon officials on Wednesday denied planning to use a new Office of Strategic Influence to plant erroneous information in the news media to promote U.S. war goals. &#8220;The Pentagon does not issue disinformation to the foreign &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/02\/20\/the-nando-times-pentagon-says\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Nando Times: Pentagon says&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-37","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}