Wednesday, 12 May, 2004

Tying down loose ends I think I plucked this item out of blogdex a few days ago. It's from a web log of a Kathryn Cramer Kathryn Cramer: Halliburton Pulling the Plug on GI Communications where she points to some military weblogs that state that Kellog Brown and Root (KBR), whose servers seem to be one of the main conduits for E-mail and net surfing from installations in Iraq, are limiting connectivity to only "essential" access for ninety days. This apparently at the order of the DoD. Connect this with the dot reported by Time magazine TIME.com: Military Personnel: Don't Read This! which reports that the DoD circulated and e-mail forbidding personnel from downloading or reading the report by General Taguba - its classified. Time links to a copy of the E mail. The Pentagon apparently is working on the doctrine that if there is no good news don't let there be any news at all. The article notes that the e-mail was promptly turned over to the press by CPA officials in Bagdad. ._._. pb _._ There was a thread on metafilter that I scanned earlier this evening (13May04) Leaking self-doubt built around a article in the British web mag Spiked that much of the story we know- the pictures of the 372nd at Abu Ghraib, the Taguba report.- was leaked from inside. I might add the CPA memo by that AEI person the Village Voice had as well. The Spiked piece it seems was playing up the Niall Ferguson theme that Americans lack the intestinal fortitude to take the reins of the empire we are in already receipt of, and our bleeding heart watery weakness and denial are the real problem. 11:47:55 PM    comment [];trackback [];

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