One Year Ago: WikiLeaks, the 'Afghan War Logs'—and the Debate That Did Not Follow
Greg Mitchel @ The Nation - As a new debate seemingly fails to build over US policy on Afghanistan—in the wake of President Obama’s announcement of a rather-too-slow “drawdown”—it is useful to review the much-forgotten revelations that emerged from WikiLeaks’s massive “war logs” release last July, and the reaction (or lack of) they produced.
WikiLeaks released more than 91,000 documents related to the United States and the war in Afghanistan, which the New York Times called “a six-year archive of classified military documents [that] offers an unvarnished and grim picture of the Afghan war.” Explicitly, or by extension, the release also raised questions about the media coverage of the war to date. Read more.
WikiLeaks released more than 91,000 documents related to the United States and the war in Afghanistan, which the New York Times called “a six-year archive of classified military documents [that] offers an unvarnished and grim picture of the Afghan war.” Explicitly, or by extension, the release also raised questions about the media coverage of the war to date. Read more.
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