It all began with an April 24, 2008 column in The Washington Post by Dana Milbank. It began, "Lt. Col. Billy Hall, one of the most senior officers to be killed in the Iraq war, was laid to rest yesterday at Arlington National Cemetery. It's hard to escape the conclusion that the Pentagon doesn't want you to know that."
Today, more than two months later, Milbank returns to the story—with news that the public affairs director at Arlington seems to have agreed with that assessment, and has now been fired, quite possibly as punishment.
The scandal of not allowing images of returning coffins and many other images of war, as I have often written, has percolated since the beginning of the Iraq conflict.
