Anti - WikiLeaks: "McGruff the Crime Dog-Style Cartoon Sergeant"

Army Deploys Cartoon Character in Anti-WikiLeaks Campaign

10/25/10 - Need to know what SAEDA stands for? Enter "McGruff the Crime Dog-style cartoon sergeant to talk to your soldiers like Third Graders about information security," Gawker writes. (By the way, SAEDA is "Subversion and Espionage Directed Against the Army," shame on you.)

This guy in camo will dish out quizzes, make you memorize acronyms, terrorize and knock you down with a tank if you think you can fudge your way through his session. Watch a video of the interactive training here, or, better still, if you are in the mood to be traumatized, take it yourself. {read rest}

Inside the Wikileak documents

Oct. 25: Recently released WikiLeaks documents confirmed that the Pentagon knew about the real civilian death toll in Iraq, and that security forces were torturing detainees. The Nation’s Jeremy Scahill discusses.



AIR DATE: Oct. 25, 2010: Reaction to Newly Public Iraq War Documents

SUMMARY
The media is combing through confidential documents on the Iraq War released by the website WikiLeaks, including accounts of abuse against Iraqi civilians and "hard evidence" that the United States turned a blind eye. Margaret Warner gets perspectives on the issue. Transcript