Pentagon's 'Privilege Review Team' Off Its Rocker

This post by Glenn Greenwald has to be read to be believed. A defense attorney for Binyam Mohamed, a man tortured by the US, has written a letter to president Obama about the torture that his client has received at the hands of the US. In response, the Prentagon's 'Privilege Review Team' has initiated a summons against him to explain himself in court. All this for complying with policies that the Pentagon itself set up. Amazing.

Pentagon creates Internet news correction division

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6100906.stm

Well, yet another sad step towards total government control. The Pentagon thinks that some may be manipulating the media, especially on the Internet, to their own ends. Therefore, it's the Pentagon's job to 'correct messages' and 'respond to inaccurate statements.'

To me, this seems more like an effect to clamp down on free speech on the Internet and to skew it towards a favorable view of the U.S. government. Sorry, Rummy, but it appears that world and domestic public opinion is against you. Being unpopular is not an excuse to intimidate people in order to make them change their opinions, which I'm sure is what this new department intends to do, ever so insidiously.

1984, here we come.