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Topic: Gen. John Allen cleared
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Gen. John Allen cleared
in Petraeus email case
Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By:BuckeyeRon, 1/22/2013 8:04:58 PM
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| Washington – A Pentagon investigation has cleared Gen. John Allen, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, of professional misconduct in exchanging emails with a civilian woman linked to the sex scandal that led retired Gen. David Petraeus to resign as CIA director. Pentagon press secretary George Little said Tuesday that Defense Secretary Leon Panetta was informed of the conclusion by the Pentagon´s inspector general. "The secretary was pleased to learn that allegations of professional misconduct were not substantiated by the investigation," Little said, adding that Panetta has "complete confidence in the continued leadership" of Allen.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
hisself, 1/22/2013 8:17:20 PM (No. 9133208)
Why is the DOD wasting taxpayers´ (or China´s) money on crap like this?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
SoCalGal, 1/22/2013 8:38:31 PM (No. 9133231)
Because that mendacious wack job Broadwell decided that Petraeus belonged to her and stirred up a bunch of bogus hornet´s nests, that´s why. It would not have been fair to leave General Allen under a cloud. There was no cloud.
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