Time to Get Serious…
I hate to disturb everyone’s "lazy" Sunday, but there’s a matter that’s come to my attention through two of my favorite sites. Captain’s Quarters and Michelle Malkin have revealed that the Sgrena Report is on the ‘Net. Yes it’s nice to have all that information available to everyone—free exchange of information and all—however this report does reveal a bit more than what should have been revealed.
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/
http://michellemalkin.com/archives/002293.htm
* An itemization of IEDs and VBIEDs deployment techniques which have been most effective,
* An analysis of the tactical strengths and weaknesses of specific checkpoints along "Route Irish"
* Combat readiness assesment of the units and soldiers involved,
* A detailed description of how the checkpoint is laid out,
* Exact grid locations of various assets.
* Details of how checkpoint searches are set up and executed
* Details of how checkpoints are expected to deal with approaching vehicles, including threat assesment methods.
* A statistical analysis of "normal" traffic approaching the checkpoint.
It names the soldiers involved and details the specific actions taken by those soldiers. It names the soldier who killed Calipari.
It briefly describes U.S. Embassy procedures for transporting VIPs along Route Irish and in general.
It details movement of U.S. and Italian Embassy personnel.
It describes possible future procedures and configurations for checkpoints.
This is a lot of intelligence, and now that it's on the 'Net, it's equally available to our enemies. These are operation details that should not have been released. The insurgents have just been handed a gold mine in terms of intelligence. Names of soldiers over there, grid locations, etc. Who in their right frelling mind would let something like this out? This report should have had redacted areas all over it protecting the intelligence that it, instead, released to everyone and their brother with a computer, a modem, and access to the Internet. This report was originally redacted, as Captain’s Quarters points out. Kevin Drum has a photo of the redacted copy on his site. So, why didn’t it stay that way?
This is disgraceful, and idiots like Kevin Drum of Washington Monthly gloating over it really ticks me off. Worse yet, the Italians are exploiting the report, and jeopardizing our soldiers life. They’re playing fast and loose with this report, as the original way to see the report (Yes, I have seen. I have it saved. No, I will not post a link to it.) was via PDF through an Italian site.
We are at war. It’s been a long time since we’ve been in a war; one that has the stakes this one has. Michelle Malkin’s right in reminding everyone of the dangers of loose lips. The Italians have far too flappy-a-lip for my tastes. Thanks a lot guys. Thanks to you imbeciles abroad, our enemy can adjust their tactics and strategies. Thanks for getting more of our troops killed. I’m sure their families will be happy to know that in your rush to stupidity, you sacrificed a good and decent soul.
I don’t know what I’m more irritated over on this issue, the fact our government gave them this sort of information, or that the Italians could give a rip about the safety of soldiers in the field, and openly release it. I want someone’s head over this, and I don’t care which one is the one that ends up rolling.
Publius II
I hate to disturb everyone’s "lazy" Sunday, but there’s a matter that’s come to my attention through two of my favorite sites. Captain’s Quarters and Michelle Malkin have revealed that the Sgrena Report is on the ‘Net. Yes it’s nice to have all that information available to everyone—free exchange of information and all—however this report does reveal a bit more than what should have been revealed.
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/
http://michellemalkin.com/archives/002293.htm
* An itemization of IEDs and VBIEDs deployment techniques which have been most effective,
* An analysis of the tactical strengths and weaknesses of specific checkpoints along "Route Irish"
* Combat readiness assesment of the units and soldiers involved,
* A detailed description of how the checkpoint is laid out,
* Exact grid locations of various assets.
* Details of how checkpoint searches are set up and executed
* Details of how checkpoints are expected to deal with approaching vehicles, including threat assesment methods.
* A statistical analysis of "normal" traffic approaching the checkpoint.
It names the soldiers involved and details the specific actions taken by those soldiers. It names the soldier who killed Calipari.
It briefly describes U.S. Embassy procedures for transporting VIPs along Route Irish and in general.
It details movement of U.S. and Italian Embassy personnel.
It describes possible future procedures and configurations for checkpoints.
This is a lot of intelligence, and now that it's on the 'Net, it's equally available to our enemies. These are operation details that should not have been released. The insurgents have just been handed a gold mine in terms of intelligence. Names of soldiers over there, grid locations, etc. Who in their right frelling mind would let something like this out? This report should have had redacted areas all over it protecting the intelligence that it, instead, released to everyone and their brother with a computer, a modem, and access to the Internet. This report was originally redacted, as Captain’s Quarters points out. Kevin Drum has a photo of the redacted copy on his site. So, why didn’t it stay that way?
This is disgraceful, and idiots like Kevin Drum of Washington Monthly gloating over it really ticks me off. Worse yet, the Italians are exploiting the report, and jeopardizing our soldiers life. They’re playing fast and loose with this report, as the original way to see the report (Yes, I have seen. I have it saved. No, I will not post a link to it.) was via PDF through an Italian site.
We are at war. It’s been a long time since we’ve been in a war; one that has the stakes this one has. Michelle Malkin’s right in reminding everyone of the dangers of loose lips. The Italians have far too flappy-a-lip for my tastes. Thanks a lot guys. Thanks to you imbeciles abroad, our enemy can adjust their tactics and strategies. Thanks for getting more of our troops killed. I’m sure their families will be happy to know that in your rush to stupidity, you sacrificed a good and decent soul.
I don’t know what I’m more irritated over on this issue, the fact our government gave them this sort of information, or that the Italians could give a rip about the safety of soldiers in the field, and openly release it. I want someone’s head over this, and I don’t care which one is the one that ends up rolling.
Publius II
posted by Syd And Vaughn | 1:52 PM
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Absolutely reprehensible
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