US military says it didn’t mean to hide data showing Taliban’s strength, cites ‘human error’

Published January 30, 2018 4:07pm ET



The U.S. military is denying it had any intention of withholding information about the extent of government control in Afghanistan, a statistic that is not classified, and has been publicly available for years.

The denial came Tuesday morning hours after an internal watchdog said it had been ordered to no longer disclose how much territory the Taliban holds in Afghanistan.

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