An active-duty US military officer has accused senior army officials of misleading the US Congress and the American people about the ongoing war in Afghanistan. In his leaked report on the occupation of Afghanistan, Lieutenant-Colonel Daniel Davis says top US military officials have concealed the reality about the war on Afghanistan, Press TV reported. His accusations have sparked fresh debates and renewed criticisms of Washington’s real motives behind the invasion of Afghanistan. Davis reportedly wrote two versions – one classified and one not – briefing four members of the Congress. Pentagon officials did not release the report, but the unclassified version was released by the website of the Rolling Stone magazine.
“As I will explain in the following pages I have personally observed or physically participated in programmes for at least the last 15 years in which the Army’s senior leaders have either stretched the truth or knowingly deceived the US Congress and American public,” Davis explains in his introduction. Davis’s report also describes the March 2011 Congressional testimony by General David Petraeus and the Defence Department’s April 2011 Report to Congress as either “misleading, significantly skewed or completely inaccurate”.
Generals misleading Congress, people on Afghan war: US colonel
