WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 (UPI) -- The quotes in Rolling Stone that led to the firing of Afghan commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal did not come from him or his top officers, an Army review found.
But The New York Times reported Wednesday the unreleased report still does not resolve who was responsible for the quotes, most of which were anonymous. McChrystal was forced out in June and replaced by Gen. David Petraeus, his former boss.
The Army review has been turned over to the Pentagon's inspector general, the Times said, because it involves a four-star general and several subordinates outside the Army.
McChrystal accepted responsibility for the quotes and resigned. The Times said he is now teaching at Yale and speaking on the lecture circuit.
The Rolling Stone article did not directly quote McChrystal as saying anything overtly insubordinate, and the review said he may not have been present to hear some of the disrespectful comments by members of his staff. The comments targeted President Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and some of their top aides.
The newspaper said the report points some blame at a midlevel Navy Special Warfare officer who served as a McChrystal aide. But the aide was never interviewed by the Army's investigators, and was blamed based on the comments of others, the Times said.
The aide has told Navy officials that he did not make the offending comments, Pentagon officials said.
