Someone's off message over at Warmongering Central.
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense David Lapan told NBC's Michael Isikoff that a special assessment team looking over the WikiLeaks Afghanistan war logs has found nothing that could damage national security.
Yesterday, concerned leaders in other NATO nations were on-message: "this represents a threat to our troops." David Lapan seems to have missed that memo, and in fact would be the person who would issue an assessment in the first place.
Gibbs was particularly incoherent when trying to express outrage yesterday, and little wonder. Maybe he was sending a message that he wasn't on board with the "official line?"
As NBC reports - http://www.nbcnewyork.com/...
An ongoing Pentagon review of the massive flood of secret documents made public by the WikiLeaks website has so far found no evidence that the disclosure harmed U.S. national security or endangered American troops in the field, a Pentagon official told NBC News on Monday.
The initial Pentagon assessment is far less dramatic than initial statements from the Obama White House Sunday night after three major news organizations – The New York Times, the Guardian and Der Spiegel — published what was touted as an unprecedented “secret archive” of classified military documents relating to the war in Afghanistan.
Who to believe? Who to believe?