"What does seem rather surprising is that all those commanders, captains and colonels must have sat through the course and not felt the need to tell someone that something rather weird was going on."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18030105 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18030105)
this has been going on for a while with Spencer Ackerman running the Danger Room blog down the tubes. In this case, he happens to have found something worth discussing. But his spam-bombing of DR with counterfactual crap in too many instances led many people to immediately dismiss this as Attackerman-style hyperbole, until it became clear it wasn't.
Unfortunately, now that he feels he has one scalp, he's only going to be emboldened going after other less worthy targets.