Posted on 10/30/2021 12:05:53 AM PDT by blueplum
A U.S. government watchdog on Friday accused the State Department and Pentagon of suppressing information that lawmakers and the public need to understand the collapse of Afghanistan's former government and military and the chaotic U.S. troop pullout.
John Sopko, the special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction (SIGAR), spoke out on Friday after it emerged that many of the routine documents had now been marked as classified....
...After a review, his agency found only four items meriting redaction, and left the remainder accessible.
Noting that Congress tasked him with investigating the collapse of the U.S.-backed Afghan government and military, he said the Pentagon has since 2015 barred from public release a range of data....
Most of that information, including casualty data and unit strengths, was 'all you needed to know to determine whether the Afghan security forces were a real fighting force or a house of cards,' he said....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
BiXiden’s fault.
Ha! You think we’re ever told the truth about ANYTHING? Sleepy46 just suppressed reports about the JFK assassination. From 1963! Everybody reading this will be dead before the Afghanistan coverup sees the light of day.
Using classification to cover screw-ups is the norm for the military just like anyplace else in the government
In America 2.0 there is freedom of information.
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