[Noisebridge-discuss] Jacob Applebaum detained upon arriving in U.S.

[Neil Kandalgaonkar]

On 8/2/10 6:43 PM, Gian Pablo Villamil wrote:
> If someone (the Taliban) is willing to execute people based on
> documents from their enemy (the US Army), then they have exposed a
> huge weakness - nothing prevents the US from seeding the documents
> with the names of various Taliban commanders.
>
> Apparently some of the leaked documents *are* part of a "poison the
> well" strategy, with Afghan war veterans pointing out rather strange
> discrepancies between the documents and incidents that they personally
> witnessed.

Citation?

Anyway, I don't think you need such an elaborate theory to explain why 
US operational records don't always relate well to whatever happened. 
Simple incompetence in recording information or the need to look good to 
commanders should be adequate.

Of course if the pattern is not consistent with either explanation then 
maybe it is something that clever.

-- 
Neil Kandalgaonkar (|  <neilk at brevity.org>