According a Huffington Post story, this week the Navy issued an official memo notifying sailors that they should not and are not authorized to view the classified documents on WikiLeaks. Huffington...
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According a Huffington Post story, this week the Navy issued an official memo notifying sailors that they should not and are not authorized to view the classified documents on WikiLeaks. Huffington...
The US Senate on Foreign Relations conducted a hearing on reconciliation options in Afghanistan on July 27. Though the testimony was posted on the SWJ blog, it seems to have been drowned out by the...
Intentionally or not, WikiLeaks has become an arbiter of life and death.
Here's telling quote from the Channel 4 interview referenced by subrosa above:
With four years experience, a...
Ken, I'm not sure of your intent here. Can you explain further?
By now, most everyone has read about WikiLeak's release of 92,000 reports from operations in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2010 -- some of them classified. Over the last month, three news...
I spent a year in Baghdad recently and worked closely with the media - mostly national level types, but sometimes with regional and local journalists.
I was surprised and impressed by the...
In case anyone missed it, RS journalist Hastings on the Colbert Report.
Interview doesn't start until 2/3 into the video.
Two thoughts:
1) Mann kann nie Wisson (you never know.)
2) I guess the annually required online "Need To Know" classes might be onto something.
NORMALLY, media access to senior military leaders is vetted. The intent is not to keep info from the public, but instead to work to keep facts from being distorted or over-sensationalized. Thus,...
The Germans were so confident in their analysis that the Allies would land in Calais and had so few dissenters in their senior ranks, that they were completely caught off guard with the landing at...
Though surprising in the here and now, McChrystal and his staff aren't the first capable military officers done in by hubris and group think (think: Germans at Calais...) What I find most telling in...