New York (CNN) The Washington Post's years-long fight to obtain the Afghanistan Papers began with a "good old-fashioned tip" about Michael Flynn. Hundreds of memos from former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld also made up the database that the Post dubbed the Afghanistan Papers. "People now have the opportunity to see and hear for themselves the richness, the texture, the human voices in these papers," he said. The Post is still seeking 200 additional interviews that Whitlock said "have been conducted since we first began seeking these records." "The more the better," he said, "the better understanding we can have of what went wrong in Afghanistan and all the mistakes that were made."

Source: CNN December 14, 2019 21:45 UTC