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The U.S. Military's Contemplated Use of the Blogosphere

By John Dermody, Travis Hodgkins, and Nema Milaninia

While I was perusing the blogosphere about a week ago, I came across a post on Opinio Juris that caught my attention entitled, US Military Thought About Recruiting-- or Hiring-- Bloggers, which discusses a 2006 report for the Joint Special Operations University that suggests using bloggers to verbally attack a specific person or promote a specific message. The Opinio Juris post cited an article from the Wired Blog's Danger Room entitled, Military Report: Secretly 'Recruit or Hire Bloggers', that republished the following paragraph from the report: Information strategists can consider clandestinely recruiting or hiring prominent bloggers or other persons of...

Full post as published by Transnational Law Blog on April 08, 2008 (boomark / email).