Most of the leaking so far has fit under the Bob Woodward rule that says no secret is too sensitive if it makes the high level person who authorized the leak look good. Or if it makes the country’s nemesis look like a dirty old man (though doesn’t our country already know that religious conservatives tend to be dirty old men?)

Stanley McChrystal is associated with far too many examples of the military using deception to hide illegal behavior.

Significant aspects of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have been, and continue to be, carried out secretly by Joint Special Operations Forces. Who controls these secretive forces?