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BBC NEWS | Europe | Readers 'declassify' US document

What a scope! With few clicks of the mouse at that. Cut and paste.

Does anyone know a link the the full, uncensored document?

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US military report into the killing of Nicola Calipari

When news started circulating in Italy that a heavily censored Pentagon report into the death of secret agent Nicola Calipari had been decrypted, many thought it must be the work of some top-notch hacker.

In fact, it turned out that the classified document, containing top-secret details - such as the name of the soldier who fired the deadly rounds of ammunition - could be made readable with two simple clicks of your computer mouse.

A few hours after the Pentagon published the report on its website, a few Italian readers found they could make the blacked-out paragraphs reappear by cutting and pasting them from the site into a Word document.

Salvatore Schifani, a 30-year-old IT worker, spotted the document at about 0300 local time (0100 GMT) on Saturday night.

BBC NEWS | Europe | Readers 'declassify' US document: "A few hours after the Pentagon published the report on its website, a
few Italian readers found they could make the blacked-out paragraphs
reappear by cutting and pasting them from the site into a Word
document."

posted by Dave @ 9:24 PM