Ever wonder how they can send so many paid shills here? Look no further than the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012. It makes it legal for the U.S. Government to engage in domestic propaganda. But I think we can all call a spade a spade and call it: lying.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apbvqPHKkR0
"The Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012, which was contained within the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013 (section 1078 (a)) amended the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 and the Foreign Relations Authorization Act of 1987, allowing for materials produced by the State Department and the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) to be available within the United States."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith%E2%80%93Mundt_Act
I literally just learned this today. Obviously this was quite a shocker. This is Pizzagate related because it explains how the U.S. Government can get away with lying. Before Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 the government had legal liability if it paid a shill to come here and knowingly lie. Not anymore!
Obviously Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 isn't going to make it to the Fall. When Trump brings the hammer down something tells me this farce of a law is going to get curb stomped.
Now you know!
And to the shills dust off that resume baby. You'll be out of work soon.
:-(
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Tyranny-News-Network ago
Assuming this act does open doorways to deceive the US citizenry, ask yourself this. Has anything prevented agencies of the US government from lying to the public previously? That includes complete disinformation campaigns and coordination between agencies? I can't think of anything.
There are regulations in place that instruct intelligence agencies not to undertake certain activities in the US, limiting their actions to other counties. The CIA is not supposed to conduct any domestic operations. But they are also not accountable to any authorities. So they do as they wish and risk only a meaningless congressional investigation and hearings. All judicial actions can be shut down with simply citing national security.
The FBI is supposedly a domestic law enticement agency with no international authority. That didn't stop them from forming an international terrorism division.
There's also a massive loophole in the system that prohibits spying and harassment of US citizens by any US agency. Because of our 5-eyes relationship with Britain, Canada, Australia, and our admitted intelligence sharing, the countries contract with each other to troll their own citizens. It helps that they are all English speaking nations. This is one major reason why so many trolls online and here on Voat are British and Canadian.
As for events mentioned in this discussion like Sandy Hook, that's another matter that can't be smoothed over by extending authority to propagandize. Because those events involve things like financial fraud, misappropriation, criminal fraud, child abuse and even murder, they are subject to prosecution. It's even possible (some have theorized) that a deceptive event like Sandy Hook could be prosecuted under the False Claims Act because there was so much cross departmental fraud going on. But that act is geared for private corporations defrauding the government, not the government defrauding itself.
But hey , if anyone could identify that fraud and it was prosecuted they could earn 15-30% of the recovered funds.
DarkMath ago
"Has anything prevented agencies of the US government from lying to the public previously? "
Yes, the Constitution.
Don't worry, the NDAA and Smith-Mundt were built with great risk to the Deep State. They opened up the possibility the U.S. Government can be sued for things like Sandy Hook.
Everything was fine until Hillary Clinton lost. Now the house of cards is coming down. In the case of Sandy Hook the State of Connecticut will be paying millions of dollars in court settlements after they're sued down to a bloody stump.