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May 10, 2004 by cmackie

How about “Military Personnel: Don’t Read
This!”
As reported in Time:


It’s not exactly every day that the Pentagon warns military personnel to stay
away from Fox News. But that’s exactly what some hopeful soul at the Department of Defense
instructed, in a memo intended to forbid Pentagon staff reading a copy of the Taguba report
detailing abuse of detainees at prisons in Iraq that had been posted at the Fox News web
site.

There’s a copy of the Pentagon Email
Warning
on the Time Web site. This is how it goes:


FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY

AUDIENCE
All ISD Customers


SUMMARY
Fox News and other media outlets are distributing the Tugabe report
(spelling is approximate for reasons which will become obvious momentarily). Someone has given
the news media classified information and they are distributing it. THE INFORMATION
CONTAINED IN THIS REPORT IS CLASSIFIED. ALL ISD CUSTOMERS SHOULD:


1) NOT GO TO FOX NEWS TO READ OR OBTAIN A COPY
2) NOT comment on
this to anyone, friends, family etc.
3) NOT delete the file if you receive it via e-mail, but

4) CALL THE ISD HELPDESK AT 602-2627 IMMEDIATELY


This leakage will be investigated for criminal prosecution. If you don’t have the document and
have never had legitimate access, please do not complicate the investigative processes by seeking
information. Again, THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS REPORT IS CLASSIFIED;
DO NOT GO TO FOX NEWS TO READ OR OBTAIN A COPY.



Does the Pentagon look more and more like a dog chasing its own tail, or am I
dreaming?

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