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Sunday, January 31, 2016

FREE BEACON: Special Ops Commander Demands Pentagon Stop Exposing Operations

Gen. Joseph Votel: Publicity makes it harder for forces to do their jobs

Gen. Joseph Votel in Afghanistan in 2007 / AP

BY: Morgan Chalfant
January 27, 2016 5:16 pm

President Obama’s nominee to head U.S. Central Command recently penned a memo to Defense Secretary Ash Carter demanding that the Pentagon stop discussing the operations of elite American troops.

Foreign Policy, which obtained an excerpt of the memo, reported that Gen. Joseph Votel, currently the chief of U.S. Special Operations Command, wrote the December 8 memo to express concern about the Obama administration’s exposure of special operations forces’ activities.

“I am concerned with increased public exposure of SOF activities and operations, and I assess that it is time to get our forces back into the shadows,” Votel wrote to Carter.