18 April 2011
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Gen McChrystal has since been engaged to lecture at Yale University
The Pentagon has cleared of wrongdoing a US general sacked after a magazine reported he and his staff had spoken disrespectfully about top US officials.
A Pentagon report found insufficient evidence Gen Stanley McChrystal, until June the top US general in Afghanistan, had violated US military policy.
It said events narrated in the magazine had not occurred as written. Rolling Stone said it stood by its article.
Gen McChrystal was replaced as head of US and Nato forces in Afghanistan.
US President Barack Obama replaced him with Gen David Petraeus, saying Gen McChrystal had failed to “meet the standard that should be set by a commanding general” and that the article “undermines the civilian control of the military that’s at the core of our democratic system”.
Gen McChrystal later resigned from the Army.
In a document released on Monday, the Pentagon inspector general’s office said it had reviewed the magazine’s piece, entitled The Runaway General, in
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