A a senior officer told the Sun of Lt Col McNally's case: "This is deeply embarrassing for the British Army and completely unprecedented. It mitigation, there is no suggestion that any of the figures were being leaked to the Taliban."
Nice to see the old principles of innocent until proven guilty are being upheld here..............
Odd how it's the yanks on this thread who are going on about "security" etc. The number of civillian casualties isn't exactly a secret that will lose the war, but tell me one person who hasn't let slip something seemingly innocuous to your wife, girlfriend, partner (have to be inclusive these days!) by accident.
He's being gone after as it is an embarrassing bit of information that has supposedly been leaked, not a strategically important one.