The portrayal of my reporting in Afghanistan and Iraq as embedded blogging is inaccurate I was never an embedded blogger in Iraq and Afghanistan my credential was always as a embedded journalist Over the past two years I ve reported for several news agencies both domestic and international Worldnetdaily Foxnews com Although I ve written commentary for Fox Forums I have also written hard news for Foxnews com My beat is technology national security and of course the Iraq and Afghanistan wars Pajamas Media Human Events National Review Online Weekly Standard TV5Monde French El Norte Monterrey at Grupo Reforma Spanish My credential as a journalist is issued Centcom the military command for both Iraq and Afghanistan area of operations Please note Centcom does not have an embedded blogger credential I am also credentialed as a journalist for the United Nations and separately by Special ForcesCombined Joint Special Operations Task Force Afghanistan Qualification The UN and Special Forces United States Army are fairly difficult credentials to obtain and being an embedded blogger would not suffice For the record I ve never been quoted hired or paid as a blogger I ve always been quoted paid and hired as a journalist I m not sure where the confusion comes from I d really appreciate if the editors corrected the record at Matt Sanchez If there are editors who wish to contact me please e mail at Matthew a sanchez gmail com Matt Sanchez