A Pentagon investigation has found no proof of wrongdoing by retired Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal or his aides in behavior described in a Rolling Stone article that cost him his job as the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan.
The inspector general’s report, released Monday, was completed just days before McChrystal accepted another high-profile assignment as a leader of a White House initiative to support military families.
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The report completed April 8 said “the evidence was insufficient to substantiate a violation of applicable DoD standards with respect to any of the incidents on which we focused,” and cast doubt on the accuracy of the June 2010 article by Michael Hastings, entitled “The Runaway General.”
“Not all of the events at issue occurred as reported in the article. In some instances, we found no witness who acknowledged making or hearing the comments as reported,” the 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.”
The latest report noted that the Defense Department investigators disagreed with the conclusion of Army investigators,
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