A trove of government documents shows that US officials systematically misled the public about the war in Afghanistan during three presidential administrations, the Washington Post reported Monday.
NBC News has not been able to independently review the documents and the White House, State Department and Pentagon did not immediately respond to requests for comment., and compared them to the Pentagon Papers — a top-secret government study that was packed with damaging revelations about America’s conduct in the Vietnam War leaked to The New York Times and the Post in 1971.
Since then, just under 2,300 American troops have died in the war-torn country. Between January 2009, whenbegan a systematic documentation of civilian casualties, and September this year, some 34,000 Afghan civilians died as a result of the armed conflict. In one of the reported interviews, Army Col. Bob Crowley, who served as a senior counterinsurgency adviser to U.S. military commanders in 2013 and 2014,in 2016 that “every data point was altered to present the best picture possible.”
The paper said that the documents showed that as the war dragged on, U.S. military commanders found it difficult to articulate whom they were fighting, let alone why.
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