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Another false-flag operation by the US Government, same as the ussc.gov fiasco. Escalating seems to be very effective at discrediting Anonymous based on the comments here and on reddit.



That's sort of the whole point, isn't it? Anonymous, by definition, is anyone (including employees of the US Government) acting on any motivation (including discrediting itself or other groups within itself), so long as they don't sign their name at the end.

It would be interesting to see how many factions exist within the cloud of self important people that capitalize the letter 'A' when they withhold their name.


I think you give the US government too much credit.


I think you don't give it enough credit. Israel has a history of disinformation and misinformation campaigns and I think the Obama administration will take a page from their book.

This strategy may be at the forefront of Obama's domestic policy strategy for this term -- just look at how they're discrediting the pro-Republican anti-Democrat media and they're very successful so far.




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