Bill Roggio Refutes "Bleak Anbar" Article

Read this entire report for a full review, but here is the jist of it, which not surprisingly was selectively reported by the Washington Post:

But with so few reporters in Anbar province, or Iraq for that matter (11 embedded reporters in Iraq is the last number I saw), what did the Washington Post do to assess the situation outside of the excerpted Devlin report? Why is it that Coalition press releases and statements from officers are often ignored, or must be balanced by outside reporting and observations...My sources, who will not go on record except under anonymity, are furious that the good work of officers like Colonel Devlin is being politicized through what appear to be selective leaks to media outlets. In many cases, this and other leaks are being perpetrated by a fairly select group of individuals whose identities are known within the intelligence community.

Once, such leakers would be called "traitors", and dealt with accordingly.