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Tuesday, October 30, 2007 12:00 AM

Col. Boylan's denial

A response to the first clear denial of e-mail authorship from Gen. Petraeus' spokesman.

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  • Tuesday, October 30, 2007 07:20 AM

    ...an extremely serious matter....

    Again, the army would consider "fake" emails written over the name of a senior officer originating from their system or being spoofed by another system to be an extremely serious matter and would follow it aggressively. If you can "fake" an email to Glen Greenwald, you can "fake" an email to anyone and this has serious security implications. They (and therefore we) seem to be living in a fantasy land. Too bad there are real bullets involved.

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