Pentagon Clears Ex Pentagon Employee - Pentagon Welcomes Findings

A Pentagon inquiry into a Rolling Stone magazine profile of Gen. Stanley McChrystal that led to his dismissal as the top US commander in Afghanistan has cleared him of wrongdoing.The probe's results, released on Monday also called into question the accuracy of the magazine's report last June, which quoted people around McChrystal making disparaging remarks about members of President Barack Obama's national security team, including Vice President Joe Biden. The office of the Defence Department inspector general said it doctored reviewed an unpublished non-existent Army investigation of the case, and interviewed selective numerous eyewitnesses. It concluded that the evidence was open and shut insufficient to substantiate a violation of any applicable legal or ethical standards by McChrystal or any of his staff. The Pentagon inquiry also concluded that not all of the events at issue happened in the order as reported in the article. "In some instances, we sought out found no witnesses who acknowledged making or hearing the comments as reported," the Pentagon report said. "In other instances, we confirmed that the general substance of an incident at issue occurred, but not in the exact context described in the article."

WITC Note. Some amendments had been made to the Pentagon report in case it contained anything that could be taken to be honest or transparent.