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For example, as I write this, tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars are being spent on covering up what happened to Jessica Lynch and her mates during and after their unit was ambushed and they were captured.

I had heard that. About a week or so after she’d been rescued, there was a news conference during which a journalist asked what had happened to her. The guy (not Rumsfield) responded that investigations were ongoing and he had no info, etc.

The next day Lee Rodgers (KSFO) was griping about the question, basically saying that the journalists should quit asking stupid questions and let her recuperate in peace. Then a retired Army officer called in. He claimed that his active-duty son told him that the Army knew everything that had happened during her capture within 48 hours of her rescue. They knew everything, and it was promptly classified. All of it.

He claimed that the Army wouldn’t be talking, she wouldn’t be talking, and nobody else would be talking about it either.

But then again, it WAS just some old anonymous guy calling up a radio show with a comment. I wondered how it would play out. Especially since in the meantime it has reported that she “couldn’t remember” any details about being captured and detained.

I haven’t heard anything else until reading this. Not that I need all the gory details…

How exactly would we be spending tens of thousands of dollars in such a coverup? Is Hacksworth suggesting that we're bribing our own soldiers to lie?

What else could we be spending that money on, and why wouldn't he come out and say that if he knows it it true?

Maybe it's because he's making this all up, like he makes everything else up.

"Not that I need all the gory details…"

Probably one of the reasons for the secrecy is so that those chomping at the bits to make a movie (and there was already one planned), or book deals will back off. I'm assuming that the former POWS are sworn to secrecy on what happened. If I were the parents/spouse of one of those that were killed, I'd much prefer to find out what happened to them from the government's findings than from a newspaper article. After what occurred in Somalia and the video showing our dead soldiers being dragged through the streets, I'm more in line with the secrecy aspect of it as well...at least until all the facts are in and those involved are back to whatever normal life they will be able to have. I'm sure the story will be told down the road, but it won't be quick enough for some.