House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer today dodged questions from reporters about whether Gen. Stanley McChrystal should be fired in light of a new Rolling Stone profile. “The person that needs to have faith in McChrystal is the commander in chief, the president of the United States,” Hoyer said.
Hoyer (D-MD) said Congress also must have faith in the general but he will withhold judgment until after McChrystal meets with President Obama to apologize and until he has all the facts. He added that most of the unflattering quotes in the piece are sourced to aides.
“This article hasn’t even been printed yet,” Hoyer said. “I read a news story about it in the Washington Post.”
