{"id":64112,"date":"2016-01-31T09:20:05","date_gmt":"2016-01-31T14:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=64112"},"modified":"2016-01-31T09:20:05","modified_gmt":"2016-01-31T14:20:05","slug":"carter-wont-demote-petraeus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64112","title":{"rendered":"Carter won&#8217;t demote Petraeus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=57578\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-57578\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Petraeus-and-Broadwell-261x300.jpg\" alt=\"Petraeus and Broadwell\" width=\"261\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-57578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Petraeus-and-Broadwell-261x300.jpg 261w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Petraeus-and-Broadwell-290x333.jpg 290w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Petraeus-and-Broadwell.jpg 396w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 261px) 100vw, 261px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Our buddy, Kristina Wong at <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/267609-pentagon-wont-demote-petraeus\">The Hill<\/a> reports that Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter has no intention of demoting General David Petraeus because he lost control of classified material when he gave the documents to his alternate squeeze and biographer Lieutenant Colonel Paula Broadwell;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Defense Secretary Ash Carter will not seek to demote retired Gen. David Petraeus for sharing classified information with his biographer, according to a Jan. 29 letter from the Pentagon to Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.). <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As you know, the Army completed its review of his case and recommended no additional action. Given the Army review, Secretary Carter considers this matter closed,&#8221; Stephen C. Hedger, principal deputy assistant secretary of Defense for legislative affairs, wrote in a letter obtained by The Hill.<\/p>\n<p>The letter was in response to one written to Carter by McCain, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.), ranking member, urging him not to retroactively demote Petraeus after reports that he was considering it. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In other words, the whole issue was just another big distraction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our buddy, Kristina Wong at The Hill reports that Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter has no &hellip; <a title=\"Carter won&#8217;t demote Petraeus\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64112\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Carter won&#8217;t demote Petraeus<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-pentagon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64112","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=64112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}