{"id":25991,"date":"2011-07-27T18:49:26","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T22:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=25991"},"modified":"2011-07-27T18:49:26","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T22:49:26","slug":"caldwell-cleared-of-staring-at-senators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=25991","title":{"rendered":"Caldwell cleared of “staring at Senators”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Defense Department’s Office of the Inspector General has cleared Lt. Gen. William B. Caldwell IV of the specious charges brought against him by Rolling Stone Magazine and LTC Michael Holmes who claimed that Caldwell employed psychological operations against visiting Senators, according to the Associated Press<\/a>;<\/p>\n

The office of the Defense Department inspector general wrote in a memorandum dated July 22 that it agreed with an Army probe that concluded that the allegations against Lt. Gen. William B. Caldwell IV were not substantiated. The Army probe was ordered by Gen. David Petraeus, then the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan. It was completed March 25 but has not been made public.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We wrote of the incident to some minor acclaim when I predicted that Rolling Stone would be embarrassed<\/a> by working in an environmnet with which they are unfamiliarback in January. Then I accused their messenger, LTC Holmes, of being a juvenile, love-struck, middle-aged Lothario<\/a> and when Holmes testified to the Army<\/a> and choked on his words, his lawyer tried to defend him on this blog<\/a>, because Holmes accused me of being one of Caldwell’s paid agents (by the way, Bill, still waiting on the check).<\/p>\n

Now, six months later, the DoD OIG says the allegations were unsubstantiated. Big duh, that’s what happens when amateurs try to report on the military. They get blinded by the sensational and outrageous without a thought to whether the story is even plausible. <\/p>\n

So, Ackerman, Hastings, Holmes and Zaid does my ass taste like strawberries like I’ve been told by, oh so many before you?<\/p>\n

By the way, that line “Men Who Stare at Senators” was stolen from our pal Matty O’Blackfive. Credit where it’s due.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Defense Department’s Office of the Inspector General has cleared Lt. Gen. William B. Caldwell IV … Caldwell cleared of “staring at Senators”<\/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":[6,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-shitbags"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25991","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=25991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}