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Rumsfeld ‘Snowflake’ Memos To Manipulate The Press

2 November, 2007 (00:32) | blogging, Bush, Iran, Iraq, media, news, war, youtube | By: Catherine Morgan

I wasn’t at all shocked when I saw this today on Countdown. It’s just more evidence of how the Bush administration uses fear and manipulation of the American people to further their agenda.

During his time in office Donald Rumsfeld used to write 20 to 60 brief memos each day to his staff and he called these memos snowflakes. They gave advice on how to manipulate the press and the public and some of the worst were things like should terrorism be considered a “worldwide insurgency”, “go out and push people back”, “keep elevating the threat” and “link Iraq to Iran”.

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