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In December, the West Point official said Pete Hegseth had not applied to the Military Academy.
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Hegseth has proven that he was accepted, encouraging Republican attacks and calls to investigate.
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Internal email The letters published by Bi Show employees had to ask the “unused database” to find the record.
Recently released West Point Records, it has been revealed how exactly December Snafu took place through Pete Hegseth’s admission to the prestigious Military Academy.
December 11th In the morning, Hegseth “X” wrote that the research site Propaina was preparing for a “deliberately false” story, saying that he was not admitted to the US Military Academy, where many American army officers were taught.
Propblea denied Hegseth’s lawsuit, saying that she just asked Hegsetho to respond to a West Point Public Affairs Officer’s statement that said Hegseth had not even been applied, even less recognized.
At that time, Hegseth and his allies took advantage of the event to blame West Point and the media. New records show that the mistake was West Point’s, which disregarded the review of the old thousands of academy archives before the dispute.
Internal email Letters issued by Business Insider under the Law on Freedom of Information showed that West Point employees on December 10 Changed email. Letters about Hegseth’s claim that he was accepted after he or she submitted a letter as evidence.
“See what they have submitted now?” Teresa Brinkerhoff, a public service officer, wrote to another West Point employee.
In another email The postal firm, whose name was edited, wrote, “Anyone can generate a letter of acceptance … does not mean his legal.”
“Very true,” replied Brinkerhoff.
It seemed that by day 10, West Point staff understood their mistake. “He’s there”, an employee whose name was edited, wrote by email. In the letter. “It’s in an old archived table,” the person said, submitting a search query line to show how the admission record can be found.
“The record shows that he rejected the offer,” the employee wrote.
Hegseth finished going to Princeton, where he studied politics, played basketball, and joined the reserves officers’ training casing. After graduation, he served in the Army National Guard and moved to conservative activism and media jobs.
Hegseth was a magnet of criticism in six months of his defense secretary. His candidacy for the leadership of Pentagon in December last year seemed unclear when allegations were suspected of abuse of alcohol and improper treatment of women. Hegseth denied claims and promised to stop drinking.
Terrence Kelley, head of the West Point Communications Bureau, apologized to the Propaina 10 in the afternoon. “I am sincere sorry for the wrong information,” he wrote. “It was unintentionally.”
Hegseth apparently did not receive a memorandum. The next day he announced at 8:10 p.m., when Propaina was about to convey a false story.
Kelley December 11th It was important to his colleagues that it was important that they get the “official word” “propsublica” that Hegseth tells the truth. “After confirming Hegseth’s statement, it probably kills any interest you have in the narrative, but the longer we postpone the answer, the more likely it is that it will become a story,” he wrote.
In subsequent email He called the Flub “honest error” in a letter to Propaina, which never told about Hegseth’s reception.
Until the 11th afternoon, the West Point Press Service received inquiries of Hegseth’s report from eight other media. On the same day, the elder Tom Cotton from Arkansas asked the school leadership to find out how the statement had been made.
“The Academy takes this situation seriously and apologizes for this administrative mistake,” Media Outlets told West Point.
“After the inaccurate admission information was published last December, West Point implemented additional recommendations on how to properly view and release any information on external countries,” said a West Point spokesman for Kelley. “We are sorry for the mistake and we are committed to ensuring that it does not happen again.”
“Journalists do their job by asking difficult questions for people of government, which happened here,” said a spokesman for Propaina. “Responsible news organizations only publish what they can check, so we did not publish the story when Mr. Hegseth filed documents that corrected statements from West Point.”
The Pentagon and cotton did not respond to the requests to comment.
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