Some Wikileaks docs are inaccurate. I know because I was there.

I happen to know this because I was there with Echo company, reporting for WIRED magazine. And the wide difference between what actually happened at the Moba Khan compound and what the report says happened there should give caution to those who think they can discover the capital-T truth about the Afghanistan conflict solely through the WikiLeaks war logs. It should also give pause to those officers in military headquarters who count on these updates to learn about what’s happening on the front lines. The military has a problem in how it talks to itself. These reports — ultra-compressed, and focused solely on the bombs-and-bullets part of the war — are a symptom of that shaky reporting system. They have their utility, of course. But they’re not smart or broad enough for the complexities of a war like Afghanistan.

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