Dereliction of duty to help the President?

via Wired Danger Room.

“How could we think to invite the DOD IG [the Pentagon inspector general] in during an election cycle?” Caldwell allegedly upbraided subordinate officers who favored an outside inquiry in fall 2010. Caldwell, supposedly in an “emotional” state, yelled, “You should know better!”
The accusations are laid out in a letter sent to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta by Rep. Jason Chaffetz (.pdf), who calls the incident an apparent “cover up.” The Wall Street Journal first reported the letter’s contents.

President Obama “calls me Bill,” Caldwell allegedly bragged, according to the letter. The general supposedly didn’t want to spoil that first-name relationship with a messy inquiry into corruption and wrongdoing at Afghan hospitals.

Since then, Caldwell has assumed command of US Army North in Texas, one of the Army’s most prestigious posts and the latest in a series of plum assignments

If this is true then we are witnessing the worst generation of Generals in our nations history.

The Republicans are busy nailing the AG to the wall.  They'll get to this and its gonna be nasty.  I'll be keeping an eye on this one but at least the officers that were junior to this General were trying to do the right thing.  I guess we can feel proud that from Major and below the military still has common sense.