The U.S. Government Under Four Presidents Misled The American People For Nearly Two Decades About Progress In Afghanistan, While Hiding The Inconvenient Facts About Ongoing Failures Inside Confidential Channels

The documents include highest-level “snowflake” memos written by then Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld during the George W. Bush administration, critical cables written by U.S. ambassadors back to Washington under both Bush and Barack Obama, the deeply flawed Pentagon strategy document behind Obama’s “surge” in 2009, and multiple “lessons learned” findings by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) – lessons that were never learned.