[Updated 7:50 a.m.] Gen. Stanley McChrystal has fired a press aide because of a Rolling Stone article in which McChrystal was portrayed as critical of Obama administration officials, two defense officials tell CNN.
Wait....why fire a press aide? Did McCrystal say what’s in the article or not?
Actually, I was thinking a bit more about this and I wonder if there hasn’t been a strategy to get McChrystal into an untenable position since the very beginning. Does anybody remember the “leak” of his report last year? That practically did him in at the time.
It seems to me that he’s been very accomodating to Obama and Biden, but obviously, not enough.