{"id":22990,"date":"2011-04-18T12:48:42","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T16:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22990"},"modified":"2011-04-18T12:52:27","modified_gmt":"2011-04-18T16:52:27","slug":"pentagon-clears-stan-mccrystal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22990","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon clears Stan McCrystal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Surprise, the Pentagon says they couldn&#8217;t verify the accuracy of the reporting in the Rolling Stone article which profiled General Stan McCrystal according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/us\/pentagon-inquiry-into-article-clears-mcchrystal-and-aides-1.141372\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a> &#8211; yeah the same article for which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22356\">Dickbreath Michael Hastings won a Polk Prize<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pentagon investigators said they were unable to confirm the events as reported in the June 2010 article in Rolling Stone, and the inquiry\u2019s final review challenged the accuracy of the profile of General McChrystal, who was the top commander in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>The profile quoted people identified as senior aides to the general making disparaging statements about members of President Obama\u2019s national security team. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Raise your hand if you&#8217;re surprised that Hastings can&#8217;t verify his interviews. Yeah, me neither. Now he knows why his &#8220;men who stare at Senators&#8221; (hat tip to B5 for that phrase) story went absolutely no where. <\/p>\n<p>Nice move <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19508\">on the part of everyone who didn&#8217;t bother to lift a finger to defend him<\/a>. Did I mention that US Ambassador to Afghanistan, Karl Eikenberry has been a dick for the whole four decades I&#8217;ve known him? So much for &#8220;civilian leadership&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surprise, the Pentagon says they couldn&#8217;t verify the accuracy of the reporting in the Rolling Stone &hellip; <a title=\"Pentagon clears Stan McCrystal\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22990\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pentagon clears Stan McCrystal<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}