Obama Shuts Down DOD Propaganda Office

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| Thu Apr. 16, 2009 6:45 AM PDT

The New York Times announces the shuttering:

A Pentagon office responsible for coordinating Defense Department information campaigns overseas has been abolished...

Military and civilian critics said the office, the Defense Department office for support to public diplomacy, overstepped its mandate during the final years of the Bush administration by trying to organize information operations that violated Pentagon guidelines for accuracy and transparency.

I'm guessing we won't be planting stories in the Iraqi media while simultaneously claiming we're fostering a free press, either.

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