CJCS General Dunford Frustrated With Media’s ‘Drip, Drip, Drip’ of Details on Deadly Niger Attack by Dan Lamothe – Washington Post
The Pentagon’s top general said Thursday that he is “very frustrated with the drip, drip, drip of information” seeping out in the media about an Oct. 4 ambush in Africa that killed four U.S. soldiers and five Nigerien troops, but acknowledged that “everyone is doing their job” in examining it.
Marine Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that he would prefer to let investigators quietly compile all the information and then brief the families involved before they read accounts of the battle in the media. But the issue is more complicated than that, he said.
“It’s the world as it is,” said Dunford, traveling on a flight from Washington to South Korea. “I’m not making a judgment here. But I would just tell you, my preference would be to get a single document” that outlines the investigation…