Well, I suppose that what they're trying to do is to capture press attention, obviously, and they've succeeded.
The fact that some members of the press knew enough about those operations to ask the questions and to print the stories was clearly because someone in the Pentagon had provided them that information.
Baghdad is bustling with commerce. Universities and hospitals are open for business, ... A free press is flourishing, Iraqi banks have started taking applications for small business loans so Iraqi entrepreneurs can create jobs.
The idea of embedding a press pool into that group seems to me to be outside of the realm of reasonableness,