WASHINGTON, Oct 30 — A US government watchdog yesterday accused the State Department and Pentagon of suppressing information that lawmakers and the public need to understand the collapse of Afghanistan’s former government and military and the chaotic US troop pullout. “The full picture of...
WASHINGTON, Oct 30 — A US government watchdog yesterday accused the State Department and Pentagon of suppressing information that lawmakers and the public need to understand the collapse of Afghanistan’s former government and military and the chaotic US troop pullout.
A State Department spokesperson said the department had requested “some reports be temporarily removed to redact identifying information from public records and protect the identities of Afghans and Afghan partner organisations” due to security concerns about the evacuation effort. The department “was never able to describe any specific threats to individuals that were supposedly contained in our reports,” said Sopko, who added he “reluctantly” barred access to the documents.
Some requests were “bizarre,” such as excising former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s name from reports, Sopko said.
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