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Monday, May 02, 2005

The Mother of All Leaks...

... and I'm not talking about the one from the pipe that burst under my front yard this weekend.

See Michelle Malkin's post regarding leaked information centering around the Giuliana Sgrena incident. The information was published by the Italian media - and potentially poses a serious risk to our service personnel.

Among the items published (from Slashdot):

* An itemization of IEDs and VBIEDs deployment techniques which have been most effective,

* An analysis of the tactical strengths and weaknesses of specific checkpoints along "Route Irish",

* A detailed description of how the checkpoint is laid out,

* Details of how checkpoints are expected to deal with approaching vehicles, including threat assesment methods.

* It names the soldiers involved and details the specific actions taken by those soldiers...

Read more here - The Italian Leak

To leap upon the opportunity to publish these details, to exploit the problem, is just as bad, given the fact that anyone seeing the text should have known the risk posed. Not surprising that the Italian media did just that, but still far past tolerable.

And for the anti-war, anti-troop crowd to doubtless be not-so-secretly pleased by this is even one step beyond publishing the info. I won't name the site that I'm thinking of; if you hang around the milblogs, I'm sure you've seen or heard of it. If you haven't, I'm not going to help anyone get there.

Here's hoping we never make a mistake like this again, and that our troops are always ten steps ahead of the bad guys.

Other blogs to see:

Michelle Malkin - The Italian Leak
BlackFive - The Sgrena Incident Report - Security Leak
Austin Bay - Secret Sgrena Incident Report– Doesn’t Look So Secret
Rhymes with Right - Italian Outrage!
Say Anything - Whose Side are These People On?

Mark My Words - Loose lips - kill people
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