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General Category => 3DHS => Topic started by: BT on July 27, 2010, 06:30:03 AM

Title: [Auto Post]Leaks Add to Pressure on WH Over Strategy
Post by: BT on July 27, 2010, 06:30:03 AM

Leaks Add to Pressure on WH Over Strategy
                                       

 Schmitt & Cooper, NY Times
WASHINGTON  "”  The White House  sought to reassert control over the public debate on the Afghanistan war on Monday as political reaction to the disclosure of a six-year archive of classified military documents increased the pressure on President Obama to defend his war strategy.      On Capitol Hill, leading Democratic lawmakers said the documents, with  their fine-grain portrayal of a war faring even more poorly than two administrations have previously portrayed, would intensify congressional scrutiny of Mr. Obama's policy.      "Those policies are at a critical...

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/07/26/leaks_add_to_pressure_on_wh_over_strategy_238375.html