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DoD Investigating Nine Cases of “Terrorism-Related Acts” by US Military and Contractors?

Jeremy Scahill / Nation Buried within the new Department of Defense Inspector General’s report, “Contingency Contracting: A Framework for Reform,” is the eye-opening revelation that the Defense Criminal Investigative Service has nine open investigations into alleged “Terrorism-Related Acts” by “U.S. contractor personnel, U.S. Military, Government personnel.” No other details are provided. DCIS is the criminal [...]
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DOD: We Hate Offshore Drilling, Too

Adam Weinstein, Mother Jones Now we have a leak to go with that spill. It’s been roughly a month since BP’s oil-rig disaster, and as our on-the-ground reporter Mac McClelland showed yesterday, the Gulf of Mexico is now starting to resemble the pit of a Jiffy Lube. There’s been no shortage of opprobrium heaped on [...]
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DoD “Clarifies” Doctrine on Psychological Operations

Steven Aftergood From now on, propaganda will refer only to what the enemy does… The Department of Defense has issued a new publication (pdf) to update and clarify its doctrine on “psychological operations.” Psychological operations, or PSYOP, are intended to “convey selected information and indicators to foreign audiences to influence their emotions, motives, objective reasoning, [...]
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Raytheon To Provide Cybersecurity Across DoD Networks

Spacewar Washington DC (SPX) Nov 17, 2009 A team led by Raytheon has been awarded a contract to help the Defense Information Systems Agency develop integrated network operations situational awareness (NetOps SA) across Department of Defense classified and unclassified cyber networks.
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