Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011
Despite the way in which they were improperly discarded and came into your possession, we are not at liberty to discuss classified information.
- 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.