Posted on 04/18/2011 3:10:29 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
WASHINGTON — An inquiry by the Defense Department inspector general into a magazine profile that resulted in the abrupt, forced retirement of Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal has cleared the general, his military aides and civilian advisers of all wrongdoing.
Pentagon investigators said they were unable to confirm the events as reported in the June 2010 article in Rolling Stone, and the inquiry’s final review challenged the accuracy of the profile of General McChrystal, who was the top commander in Afghanistan.
The article, headlined “The Runaway General,” quoted people identified as senior aides to the general making disparaging statements about members of President Obama’s national security team.
The profile prompted a furious debate about whether the commander’s staff had used insubordinate language in discussing the nation’s civilian leadership, and whether General McChrystal had tolerated or even fostered such a climate of disrespect on his team.
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So what does McChrystal do to get his reputation back? Maybe he should run for office.
But, of course, he didn't know how to do that either.
Subsequently Donovan has become a very sympathetic character for his plea to the stone cold prosecutor, and the prosecutor himself seems to have simply disappeared into the gray miasma of doctrinaire government apparatchiks.
Gad, that is so disgusting that little o would ACT on a report in Rolling Stone without an investigation. Does he get his retirement benefits, etc., back? How about his good name? I think little o is a reprehensible man.
If McC supported and voted for Obama, he had to have been an ignoramus or a leftist. If he’s now at Yale, the latter’s probably truer than the former, though not necessarily.
Funny, tho—one more example of O’s tantrum knee-jerk reactions—fire, aim, ready.
While the Defense Department inspector general’s report was only made public under a Freedom of Information Act request on Monday, it was completed earlier, on April 8. Four days later, on April 12, the White House announced that General McChrystal was invited back to public service to help oversee a high-profile administration initiative in support of military families.
An administration spokesman said Monday that the invitation to General McChrystal to help guide the new program was extended before the White House knew the results of the Pentagon investigation.
This program will be headed by Michelle Obama. The timing is BS ... this is CYA time at the WH. Further McChrystal, given the circumstances, should have declined.
When you've been accused of disorderly conduct you don't clear your name by taking up prostitution.
Be careful. The article doesn't say that his men never made the remarks quoted in Rolling Stone, just that the military investigation couldn't corroborate the hearsay. Which leads one to a whole host of other questions.
GI griping and bitching about the brass — part of the military job description...
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Maybe it depends on the definition of "knew".
McChrystal is not the only casualty of this hatchet job. Colonel Flynn, one of McChrystal’s staff was recently removed from the promotion list to Brigadier General and elected to retire. Rumor has it that it was retribution for making disparaging remarks about the CinC.
Its not nice to make fun of the King.
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