Rolling Stone Magazine: “The Afghanistan Report the Pentagon Doesn't Want You to Read”

On February 10th, 2012 Rolling Stone published an 84-page document by Lt. Colonel Daniel Davis, a 17-year Army veteran who recently returned from a second tour in Afghanistan. This report exposes many deceptive and outright dishonest statements by the military about the war in Afghanistan.

To quote Rolling Stone:

Here is the report's damning opening lines: "Senior ranking U.S. military leaders have so distorted the truth when communicating with the U.S. Congress and American people in regards to conditions on the ground in Afghanistan that the truth has become unrecognizable. This deception has damaged America’s credibility among both our allies and enemies, severely limiting our ability to reach a political solution to the war in Afghanistan." Davis goes on to explain that everything in the report is "open source" – i.e., unclassified – information. According to Davis, the classified report, which he legally submitted to Congress, is even more devastating. "If the public had access to these classified reports they would see the dramatic gulf between what is often said in public by our senior leaders and what is actually true behind the scenes," Davis writes. "It would be illegal for me to discuss, use, or cite classified material in an open venue and thus I will not do so; I am no WikiLeaks guy Part II."

The Rolling Stone article can be found here and Davis' full report can be downloaded here.