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A band of khaki liars
...Why does the Pentagon lie so blatantly? It's the ingrained nature of a beast with a $400 billion annual habit to protect. It must always put its shiniest boot forward to protect its agenda, and the truth be damned.

I recently reported how the Army Recruiting Command was having a serious shortfall in enlistment and how that could impact on troop strength in Iraq. Within a day of my story's release, the Recruiting Command put out an order that read: "The daily production report [which I incidentally based some of my article on] ... is now considered a 'For Official Use Only' ... Dissemination of that report with[out] the approval of this HQ ... is prohibited." ...