Earlier this week we saw the release of some 92,000 reports that make up a six year archive of classified military documents. These documents offer a raw picture of the nine year war in Afghanistan. While many have said these reports are but punctuation on what we already know, they paint a portrait far more damaging than anything we have hereto for been told by the administration or by the American military.
The documents were released though the controversial website WikiLeaks and released here in the US, exclusively to The New York Times. One of the lead journalists on the The New York Times team on this story, is two time Pulitzer Prize winner Eric Schmitt.
My conversation with Eric Schmitt: