Brian Stewart at the CBC reveals what's being kept from us by the Canadian military in Afghanistan. That includes things that the Americans and the British freely share with their citizens but in the name of operational security our military insists on keeping secret. It makes you wonder why those other countries hate their troops. Stewart concludes:
... secrecy that seems out of proportion to the actual needs of operational security is only likely to feed into the current climate of doubt and suspicion about the war.
For when people start feeling they are not getting the full picture, that is when they begin to question the pieces they do have.
I don't think the concept of "embedded" journalists was ever a good one. It turns reporters into public relations officers.
H/t M@ at Canadian Cynic.
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