08.25.11

Stop the presses! Infiltration of websites discovered by top reporters!

Posted in Culture of Lickspittle, War On Terror at 11:56 am by George Smith

Today’s laugher — in addition to the usual ads for counterfeits — comes from a review of Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker’s book, Counterstrike.

Readers will recall DD crashed their New York Times coming out party on ricin bomb plots a week or so ago, putting something of a crimp in their major scoop.

Once published here and in the Google News tab at Globalsecurity, there was no escaping the take down.

Today, a review of Counterstrike reveals more remarkable scooping by Schmitt and Shanker.

From Bloomberg News, we are informed that the Counterstrike book deals with — gasp — cyberwar!

Excerpted:

To sow distrust and confusion among jihadists, the United States also uses a technique of “webspoofing” called “false band replacement,” where U.S. intelligence officers infiltrate networks to post their own materials.

The agencies have forged an al-Qaida “web watermark” that in effect “makes messages posted on these sites official,” Schmitt and Shanker wrote.

We invade jihadi websites! Really! Don’t laugh. They’re serious!

USA! USA!

Boy, how did I get all this stuff back in 2007? Could it have been from someone “webspoofing” and getting into jihadi websites?

How many want to see DD write a book?

Counterstrike’s current list price of $27 seems a bit dear, all things considered.

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