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An Iraqi man is held against a Humvee by a US Marine after being searched during snap vehicle checks on February 8, 2006 in Ramadi, Iraq
Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011

Open quoteDespite the way in which they were improperly discarded and came into your possession, we are not at liberty to discuss classified information. Close quote

  • COL. BARRY JOHNSON,
  • a U.S. military spokesman, on horrific details of a 2005 massacre of Iraqi civilians by Marines contained in 400 pages of interrogations discovered by a New York Times reporter at a junkyard outside Baghdad.
Photo: Chris Hondros / Getty Images | Source: New York Times