Having now read the entirety of Lt. Colonel Daniel Davis' 84-page unclassified report (PDF) on Afghanistan which Michael Hastings at Rolling Stone says is "damning", I find myself distinctly underwhelmed. His thesis is that General Petraeus and other senior military figures have consistently lied to lawmakers and the public about positive "momentum" in Afghanistan. Really, who knew?

I get that the significance of this report is that it is by "a 17-year Army veteran recently returned from a second tour in Afghanistan" rather than a journalist or anti-war activist who can more easily be written off as not having the full picture by the powers-that-be. Still, the bulk of the report is a compilation of open-source articles by journalists, and it's badly drafted to boot. I fail to see why the Pentagon refused to release it themselves and can only think they've made a tactical error by doing so, giving the report a cachet it would otherwise not have had.
Davis is correct that Petraeus, McChrystal, Caldwell and the rest would in a perfect world be forced to testify under oath before Congress about their misrepresentations and spin. The trouble is, who is going to make that happen? The mighty of both main parties have a vested interest in not doing so. If there were true revelations in the report maybe I'd feel differently, but as it is...meh. Write it off to my cynicism.