{"id":15723,"date":"2012-05-21T14:28:47","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T18:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=15723"},"modified":"2012-05-21T14:28:47","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T18:28:47","slug":"legalize-it-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=15723","title":{"rendered":"Legalize It!"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href='http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/mhastings\/congressmen-seek-to-lift-propaganda-ban'>An amendment that would<\/a> legalize the use of propaganda on American audiences is being inserted into the latest defense authorization bill, BuzzFeed has learned.<\/p>\n<p>The amendment would \u201cstrike the current ban on domestic dissemination\u201d of propaganda material produced by the State Department and the Pentagon, according to the summary of the law at the House Rules Committee's official website.<\/p>\n<p>The tweak to the bill would essentially neutralize two previous acts\u2014the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948 and Foreign Relations Authorization Act in 1987\u2014that had been passed to protect U.S. audiences from our own government\u2019s misinformation campaigns.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Horror! Why, without this awesome law, the government could use fabricated 'evidence' to lead the country into a decade-long aggressive war against a country which had nothing to do with 9\/11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An amendment that would legalize the use of propaganda on American audiences is being inserted into the latest defense authorization bill, BuzzFeed has learned. The amendment would \u201cstrike the current ban on domestic dissemination\u201d of propaganda material produced by the State Department and the Pentagon, according to the summary of the law at the House [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}