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The Intercept: Pentagon’s Secret Service Trawls Social Media for Mean Tweets About Generals
A document shows the Protective Services Battalion uses sophisticated surveillance tools that can pinpoint anyone’s location.
When the Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley enters into his scheduled retirement later this year, one of the perks will include a personal security detail to protect him from threats — including “embarrassment.”
The U.S. Army Protective Services Battalion, the Pentagon’s little-known Secret Service equivalent, is tasked with safeguarding top military brass. The unit protects current as well as former high-ranking military officers from “assassination, kidnapping, injury or embarrassment,” according to Army records.
Protective Services’s mandate has expanded to include monitoring social media for “direct, indirect, and veiled” threats and identifying “negative sentiment” regarding its wards, according to an Army procurement document dated September 1, 2022, and reviewed by The Intercept. The expansion of the Protective Services Battalion’s purview has not been previously reported.
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Update #1: Mysterious Pentagon unit scours social media for 'embarrassing' posts about military leaders: report (Raw Story)
Update #2: Pentagon program hunts those who ‘embarrass’ its generals – Intercept (RT)
WNU Editor: My gut tells me that what they are really looking for are negative portrayals/comments of senior Pentagon officials from those who directly work for the military and/or those who are subcontracted.
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In 2013 Reddit released some data on it's highest traffic cities and the #1 "most addicted city" in the world was Eglin Air Force Base, FL. Within a couple days it was edited and removed, though you can still see the original page on the Internet Archive. That was 10 years ago. The scale of media monitoring/massaging/astroturfing has grown immeasurably since then.
Safe Space version for the US high ranking military personnel :D
If fighting is sure to result in victory, than you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result in victory, then you must not fight even at the ruler's bidding.
Sun Tzu
is sun tzu a general in our military?
or a take-out dish
Then with the money he made he bought two of every animal and then beat the crap out of them.
That's why to day we have zoos
The Pentagon must love the comments about the gay generals and admirals on this WNU blog.
we are very concerned about this!
They're entering a new phase of the war.
^the war against who?
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