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...
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