Mario Monti Quotes
That statement was not addressed to the authors of political statements. I said that I deplore attempts to misinform the public and to /trigger/ political intervention. And there were such attempts.
Monti, Mario. Interview by Charlie Rose. Charlie Rose, PBS, 20 Nov. 2001.
Pershing, normally a very circumspect officer did not criticize politicians very often. But the Congress has just cut the military appropriations with several the more vocal members appealing to voters on the grounds of economy. At that time our military was woefully unprepared and did not have anything like the kind of support that it obtained from the beginning of world war two and onward.
In earlier years it was common practice to use undercover agents to hand out disinformation pamphlets and false rumors to confuse and diffuse crowds gathering for demonstrations. The policy was abandoned. In 2006 a September 11 report surfaced {589485} where the practice had been recommended to be resurrected. The official spokesman denied that it had, but worded the denial in a way that led many to believe that the practice had been resumed. Note that he did not say that non-police officers did not do this for the police department. That left the door open for non police officer agents of the department to spread disinformation at the behest of the police department. It employed thousands of civilian, non officer personnel, and always had many paid informants and agents.
Mario Monti, OMRI is an Italian economist who served as the Prime Minister of Italy from 2011 to 2013, leading a government of technocrats in the wake of the Italian debt crisis.
