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Author:   Matt Deatherage  
Posted: 4/14/06; 12:01:00 AM
Topic: Holy crap
Msg #: 1587 (top msg in thread)
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Holy crap

Please read this:

"This week, an NBC News producer, using a hidden camera, visited the bazaar and bought a half dozen of the memory drives the size of a thumb known as flash drives. On them, NBC News found highly sensitive military information, some which NBC will not reveal." Earlier, the Los Angeles Times had published what indeed appeared to be sensitive material.

"This isn't just a loss of sensitive information," Lt. Col. Rick Francona (ret.), an NBC News military analyst, said. "This is putting U.S. troops at risk. This is a violation of operational security."

Some of the data would be valuable to the enemy, NBC related, including names and personal information for dozens of interrogatorsm and interrogation methods; and IDs and photos of U.S. troops. With information like this, "You could cripple our U.S. intelligence collection capability in Afghanistan," said Francona.

NBC added: "Among the photos of Americans are pictures of individuals who appear to have been tortured and killed, most too graphic to show. NBC News does not know who caused their injuries. The Pentagon would not comment on the photos.

And then tell me how to make the pain between my eyes go away.

Update: The military is now throwing money at the problem, buying back every flash drive they can find in the market at twice the price they were going for. Good for them - this is the best military use of $2000 I can possibly imagine - but let's figure out how it happened and how to stop it too, OK?

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