The whole exchange between Glenn Greenwald and Gen. Petraeus's spokesperson, Steve Boylan, is bizarre from the start, but takes a truly weird turn when Boylan begins denying that he actually wrote any of the e-mails. And nor is he concerned by the fact of other people writing e-mails from his e-mail, at his IP address, under his name, espousing his sentiments. Worse, he appears to by lying. As one IP expert concluded, "these two emails [the "fake" one and the real one] were written by the same person. Or, someone has hacked into the military infrastructure in an effort to discredit this one Colonel by sending cranky emails to bloggers. But one of the two, certainly."
I wonder if Boylan will get fired from this? And I wonder if he realizes how much attention he's drawn to Greenwald's main point: The politicization of military information?
