Worse yet, the report acknowledges that General Barry McCaffrey, who won a Distinguished Service Medal in Desert Storm, was excluded from meetings as punishment after he publicly criticized the Iraq war: ?I was told ? that this was the Secretary?s decision,? explained an unnamed official at the public relations office. When asked about this at an interview, Secretary Rumsfeld responded, ?I don?t know for sure.? Despite this memory lapse, the inspector general found that the exclusion was politically motivated, citing a ?preponderance of the evidence.? But the report concludes that troubling incidents involving other leading generals were insufficiently substantiated to add up to a general pattern of political animus. Even so, the inspector general fails to put the McCaffrey affair into the larger politicized context: the privileged access offered to Fox News commentators espousing right-wing views friendly to the Bush administration.
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