the aclu today released doents regarding navy investigations of civilians killed by coalition troops in iraq and afghanistan. the report notes that the administration has gone to ?unprecedented lengths to control and suppress information about the human cost? of the wars. some of the key findings:

? banning pographers on u.s. military bases from covering the arrival of caskets containing the remains of u.s. soldiers killed overseas

? paying iraqi journalists to write positive accounts of the u.s. war effort

? inviting u.s. journalists to ?embed? with military units but requiring them to mit their stories for pre-publication review

? erasing journalists? footage of civilian deaths in afghanistan

? refusing to disclose statistics on civilian casualties.

the new york times revealed in april that the pentagon also had used a estic propaganda program to paint a rosy portrait of the war effort. see the doents here.