Small Wars Journal

Spinning Legislators Ain't PSYOP

Wed, 03/09/2011 - 12:49pm
Spinning Senators Wasn't a 'Psyop,' Officer Admits - SWJ friend Spencer Ackerman, Danger Room, has the latest concerning the Rolling Stone story suggesting NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan utilized "psy-ops" on visiting U.S. citizens. BLUF: "...there was no inherent line crossed. Holmes feared that his training as an information operations officer disqualified him from spinning U.S. legislators, since information operations aren't supposed to target U.S. citizens. But both Holmes and Caldwell's team have told Danger Room that the training command didn't actually perform information operations..."