In a 2008 academic paper, President Barack Obama's appointee to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs advocated "cognitive infiltration" of groups that advocate "conspiracy theories" like the ones surrounding 9/11.
Cass Sunstein, a Harvard law professor, co-wrote an academic article entitled "Conspiracy Theories: Causes and Cures," in which he argued that the government should stealthily infiltrate groups that pose alternative theories on historical events via "chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space groups and attempt to undermine" those groups.
For their own good, of course.
...As head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Sunstein is in charge of "overseeing policies relating to privacy, information quality, and statistical programs," according to the White House Web site...
Another Oborg policy with no possibility of backfiring, just like surgin' in Afghanistan, except right here at home.
Dr. Sunstein has some catching up to do with programs the DHS, the D.o'D., the CIA, the FBI, and the NSA already have running.
But that would be conspiracy theory, wouldn't it?
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