I don’t doubt it, I seem to recall vaguely something along those lines. They never followed those laws preventing domestic operations anyway.
Also, they use the 5 eyes network as an end run around those, they spy on americans, or do operations, and put their allies letterhead on the operation, that then shares the information back with them. Even as it’s the us doing the entire thing itself. It’s a country run by lawyers, for billionaires.
Didn’t Obama overturn a law that made it legal for propaganda to be done to Americans on American soil? Smith-Mundt act.
Not really. They lifted the ban on the domestic dissemination of materials originating from the State Department.
Other departments and external agencies were, and still are, able to target propaganda at US citizens.
So no in theory, yes in practice?
Yes in theory. Yes in practice.
The error is believing that propaganda against US citizens was ever illegal.
I don’t doubt it, I seem to recall vaguely something along those lines. They never followed those laws preventing domestic operations anyway.
Also, they use the 5 eyes network as an end run around those, they spy on americans, or do operations, and put their allies letterhead on the operation, that then shares the information back with them. Even as it’s the us doing the entire thing itself. It’s a country run by lawyers, for billionaires.