Timely access to military investigations is a continuing problem for the news media, as witness
this article chronicling the efforts of various media outlets as well as
Military Reporters and Editors (the respected military-journalists' organization), the Society of Professional Journalists and Northwestern University’s National Security Journalism Initiative, to obtain the AR 15-6 investigation into the murders committed by Staff Sgt.
Robert Bales of the Army. The reasons for withholding it seem ever more unpersuasive.
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