Pentagon investigators, said they were unable to confirm the events, as shown in the June 2010 article in Rolling Stone and find the "insufficient" evidence to demonstrate a violation of standards of the Ministry of defence.
Report of the Inspector General, published Monday, also challenged the accuracy of the profile of General McChrystal, who was the senior commander in Afghanistan. The article, with the General title "the runaway", cited persons identified as senior aid for statements disparaging general manufacturing on the members of the team of the national security of the President Obama.
Profile sparked a furious debate on whether the staff of the Commander had used language insubordination and professionalism of the team of General McChrystal. He was recalled by the President, accepted responsibility for the actions of its staff, and resigned.
One aide was quoted referring to Vice President Joseph r. Biden Jr. using the expression "bite me". General James l. Jones, then national security adviser, was labelled "clown" by a single Help article, and in General McChrystal has been described as a reaction with disdain to an email from Richard C. Holbrooke.the Special Representative for the Afghanistan and Pakistan, who died in December.
Article does not directly quoted the General as saying anything openly insubordinate.
Its author, Michael Hastings and his publishers have repeatedly defended accuracy of the article. Eric Bates, editor of Rolling Stone magazine, said Monday that the article was "accurate in every detail."
The report of the Pentagon disputed incidents key or the comments, as indicated in the article.
He said "are not all the events at issue occurred as shown in the article,". "In some cases, we have not found any witnesses who acknowledged making them or hear comments as shown.." In other cases, we have confirmed that the general substance of an incident in question occurred, but not in the exact context described in the article. ?
In a statement later Monday on his Web site, Rolling Stone questioned the methods of the Pentagon inspectors, who have interviewed 15 people but not General McChrystal or Mr. Hastings.
"The Inspector General of the Pentagon report offers no credible source - or indeed, any source named - contradicting the indicated such facts in our history, 'The Runaway General,'"said the statement by Rolling Stone.""Much of the report, in fact, confirms our reports, noting that the Pentagon has been unable to find witnesses "who admitted to do or to hear the comments as reported.". This is not surprising, given that civilian and military advisers interviewed by the Pentagon knew that their career was on the line if they admitted to such comments. ?
The inspectors have suggested that some version of a Biden connotation may have occurred, although they said that they were unable to establish the exact words and the speaker. "We consider credible recollection of a witness who said General McChrystal, ' ask you to Vice President Biden." Who is who? ""and that a comment or a reply of some sort, referring to Vice President Biden was made,"said the report." "" Evidence led us to conclude that someone in the room a Rejoinder on Biden Vice President General McChrystal comment, and the replica may have included the words ' bite me. ??”
The White House and General McChrystal took steps recently to make amends.
Department of Defense Inspector General's report was only made public Monday, was completed on 8 April. Four days later, the White House announced that General McChrystal has been invited back to the public service to oversee an initiative of the administration of prestige in support of the military families.
A spokesman for the administration, said Monday that the invitation to guide the new program has been extended until the White House knew that the results of the investigation of the Pentagon.
Elisabeth Bumiller contributed reporting.
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