[Jack Moroney (RIP)]

Unfortunately this is the world in which we live. Technology is a two edged sword and anyone with a computer can pick off irresponsible reporting and claim it as fact and create a disinformation campaign which results in all the crap that is now going on over an incident over which may or may not have happened. They don't need to verify it and we are now in the position of having to disprove it ever happened. Information Ops is something that has just started to reappear in our military strategy. Rummy tried to do it and got his pecker wacked hard because someone admitted that we might just be putting out false reports to confuse the enemy. The hypocritical media in this country rose and wailed that they did not want to be part and parcel to this because their credibility would then be challenged over anything else they might put out; there is a laugh, as if they validate much of anything that goes out over the airways or in print. We really have to get better at this and use it to our advantage or we are always going to be conducting damage control and be on the defensive in this arena. Apparently only SOF have written and understood imperatives that drive their operations.

Jack Moroney-believing that freedom of speech does not mean you have a right to be heard, read, or seen by uninformed/under educated/ or psychologically manipulated masses who do not have the ability to assess your message