Pentagon quietly hid 130,000+ Afghan war photos, videos from public view
U.S and Afghan forces patrol in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, Jan. 1, 2014. (SSG Bertha A. Flores/U.S. Army)
November 02, 2021 Ryan Morgan
Beginning in August, the U.S. Department of Defense quietly began taking down more than 130,000 photos and videos taken during the 20-year military mission in Afghanistan. During a Monday press briefing, Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby confirmed the removal of the images and said the DoD chose to take what he called a temporary measure to remove images that could be used to identify vulnerable Afghans who worked with the U.S.
Kirby said that starting in August and continuing into September, the DoD reviewed and unpublished 120,000 photos and 17,000 videos shared on publicly-accessible repositories for military photos and press releases, including the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service (DVIDS). The mass removal of photos and videos came as the last U.S. forces withdrew from Afghanistan and the Taliban seized near-total control of the country.
https://americanmilitarynews.com/2021/11/pentagon-quietly-hid-130000-afghan-war-photos-videos-from-public-view/
