A recent Pentagon email orders military personnel not to read the widely-published Taguba report.

Wow.

Less funny and more disturbing, though, is the claim (not yet verified) that Halliburton is yanking email access from our Iraqi installations. I have yet to see this from a traditional news outlet, but it’s come up on two different commentary blogs so far (Kathryn Cramer and Daily Kos). I wouldn’t mention it at all, except it makes sense: the damning photos that took the Abu Grahaib scandal over the top were digital, taken not by press corps photographers but by the soldiers themselves, and then circulated by email. Food for thought, at least.