Can we justify the outrage currently directed at the possible use of "psychological operations" against several U.S. senators? The Rolling Stone Magazine broke the story, and now the Associated Press and others are picking it up. Senators so far have been restrained in their comments. Some public affairs people at Defense have been outraged, they say.
When you read closely, however, what the chief of staff asked his information operations team to do, well, it was nothing more than what many of us would do ourselves when preparing for a CODEL. I for one, routinely went on the Internet and looked up the visiting congressmen's interests, voting record, and constituent interests.
