{"id":465747,"date":"2010-03-24T08:41:05","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T12:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=80193"},"modified":"2010-03-24T08:41:05","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T12:41:05","slug":"gates-orders-review-of-all-pentagon-information-operations-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/465747","title":{"rendered":"Gates Orders Review of All Pentagon Information-Operations Programs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember Michael D. Furlong, the Pentagon official under investigation for allegedly using a government information program to launder money for an off-the-books spying operation<\/a>? His case has led Defense Secretary Robert Gates to open a wide-ranging review of all Pentagon information-operations programs. Here’s Geoff Morrell, the chief Pentagon spokesman, in his press briefing yesterday<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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[T]he secretary has directed a small team of senior military and Defense officials to conduct a quick-look assessment of DOD information operations programs, operations and procedures. The results of this assessment are designed to provide the secretary with a factual baseline from which to determine whether or not systemic problems exist, and if so proper scope and focus of subsequent corrective action.<\/p>\n

This survey phase he has mandated be complete within 15 days. So they have embarked on their work and are due to report back to him — I guess that would be early the second week of April.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Information operations bedeviled Gates’ predecessor, Donald Rumsfeld, whose efforts to create an “Office of Strategic Influence” crashed and burned<\/a> — leading him to hire a contract firm to plant stories in Iraqi newspapers<\/a>. The U.S. continues to spend nearly half a trillion dollars annually on Defense Department information-operations programs, though Morrell said the current budget request for next year is a relatively low $384 million.<\/p>\n

Morrell added that the new review’s focus is going to cover both the programs themselves and “whether or not there is proper oversight, guidelines and that sort of thing.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remember Michael D. Furlong, the Pentagon official under investigation for allegedly using a government information program to launder money for an off-the-books spying operation? His case has led Defense Secretary Robert Gates to open a wide-ranging review of all Pentagon information-operations programs. Here’s Geoff Morrell, the chief Pentagon spokesman, in his press briefing yesterday: [T]he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-465747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}