My good friend is from a military family....all of her sons, plus father, father-in-law, etc, are graduates of West Point...and lived in and around Washington for a good while
..she verifies this.
You can't keep 'stuff' like that a secret....
....people talk!
You do not have to have Washington connections to know what a shrew Mrs. Clinton is. Live within 150 miles of Little Rock and you have heard the same things for over 25 years.