PSYOP

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General Caldwell

General Caldwell's station in Afghanistan received visiting dignitaries and politicians who came to see the situation for themselves. He prevailed upon his staff to find "pressure points" to use on lawmakers that he could "leverage" to "get inside their heads."

The environment of lawlessness is reminiscent of that at Abu Ghraib. One of his staff is reported to have shouted, in defiance to reporter's questions about the legality of the practice, "It's not illegal if I say it's not!" This belief in the rightness of wrongs is doubtless created in the same way as at Abu Ghraib, where Alberto Gonzalez declared the Geneva Conventions "quaint", Rumsfeld spread the policy around, whence Abu Ghraib tortured people. The responsibility may end at Caldwell, or it may not.

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See Also

• Political Action Group Division of the CIA using political influence, psychological warfare, economic warfare, and cyberwarfare. The source of the Economic Hitmen as detailed in the book Confessions of an economic hit man
• Central Intelligence Agency
• Black propaganda
• Propaganda