Pentagon Back-Tracks On Banning The Release Of Afghanistan War Data

Task & Purpose: The Pentagon Doesn’t Want You To Know Just How Well The Taliban Are Doing

The federal watchdog responsible for tracking how American tax dollars are being spent in Afghanistan claimed in a new report that the Department of Defense is deliberately attempting to obscure the extent to which the Taliban and other insurgent groups in the country are flourishing even amid the intensifying U.S.-led military campaign to batter them into submission.

In its January 2018 quarterly report to Congress, the Office of the Special Inspector General Investigator for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) indicated that the massive amount of ordnance deployed — October 2017 saw more American bombs dropped in Afghanistan during any month since 2012, when there were more than five times the number of U.S. service members in the country than there are now — and expanding the U.S. military footprint in Afghanistan, have done little, if anything, to break the stalemate.

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WNU Editor: The Pentagon has reverse this policy .... Pentagon: Gag order on Afghan data was a mistake (Defense News/AP)

More News On Reports That The Pentagon Blocked The Release Of Afghanistan War Data

Watchdog: Pentagon blocks information on insurgent strength in Afghanistan -- Stars and Stripes
Inspector general accuses Pentagon of censoring Afghanistan data -- NBC
Auditor says Pentagon is censoring key data on the war in Afghanistan -- Los Angeles Times
Pentagon Muzzles Afghanistan Watchdog as Situation Worsens -- Bloomberg

'Human error': US military says it made 'mistake' by banning release of Afghanistan war data -- RT