You gotta see this.
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=2105341
Jake Tapper's latest piece on Nightline does an excellent job of summarizing how idiotic the Pentagon looked when they mistook a bit of machinima for a terrorist training tool and showed it to the House Intelligence Committee.
Man, I hate when that happens.
Early in the story Tapper asks incredulously: Terrorists twisting an American video game into a Jhiadist training tool? And then proceeds to lay out how the whole thing happened, including getting an anonymous interview with the European gamer who created the now infamous "terrorist Battlefield" clip.
Interestingly, the Pentagon still claims that the machinima is being used by terrorists. Tapper calls bullshit on the excuse and tells the Pentagon talking head so. He then shows the video from the briefing proving that the Pentagon is full of it.
Kotaku pal and Georgia Tech Smartie Pants Ian Bogost is quoted throughout the seven-minute piece.
"We should really be questioning the kind of advice that Congress is getting," Bogost says.
It all makes for some great video.
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=2105341
Jake Tapper's latest piece on Nightline does an excellent job of summarizing how idiotic the Pentagon looked when they mistook a bit of machinima for a terrorist training tool and showed it to the House Intelligence Committee.
Man, I hate when that happens.
Early in the story Tapper asks incredulously: Terrorists twisting an American video game into a Jhiadist training tool? And then proceeds to lay out how the whole thing happened, including getting an anonymous interview with the European gamer who created the now infamous "terrorist Battlefield" clip.
Interestingly, the Pentagon still claims that the machinima is being used by terrorists. Tapper calls bullshit on the excuse and tells the Pentagon talking head so. He then shows the video from the briefing proving that the Pentagon is full of it.
Kotaku pal and Georgia Tech Smartie Pants Ian Bogost is quoted throughout the seven-minute piece.
"We should really be questioning the kind of advice that Congress is getting," Bogost says.
It all makes for some great video.