US Military proposed secretly hiring bloggers

Zeinfeld writes: "Wired reports that Dorothy Denning, one time Clipper Chip supporter wrote a report on using blogs for information warfare in 2006 (available from cryptome. Amongst the proposals were hiring bloggers directly as propaganda agents and using military media resources to 'make' a blogger posting favorable material. Notably, and most unfortunately absent from the report is the question of whether the military should be manipulating domestic media for the political advantage of the incumbent administration."