Stolen military data for sale in Afghanistan
Portable computer drives peddled at bazaar outside Bagram Air Base
NBC VIDEO
April 13: NBC's Lisa Myers reports on a security breach at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan involving computer drives that contained sensitive information that were stolen, smuggled and sold.
Nightly News
WASHINGTON - Just outside the main gate of the huge U.S. military base in Bagram, Afghanistan, shopkeepers at a bazaar peddle a range of goods, including computer drives with sensitive — even secret information — stolen from the base.
Some of the data would be valuable to the enemy, including:
Names and personal information for dozens of DOD interrogators;
Documents on an “interrogation support cell” and interrogation methods;
IDs and photos of U.S. troops.
With information like this, “You could cripple our U.S. intelligence collection capability in Afghanistan,” says Francona.
Among the photos of Americans are pictures of individuals who appear to have been tortured and killed, most too graphic to show. NBC News does not know who caused their injuries. The Pentagon would not comment on the photos.
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