Six days later, the classified McChrystal memo was leaked. The front page of the Washington Post screamed, “McChrystal: More Forces or ‘Mission Failure.’” Whether it intended to or not, the Pentagon had jammed the commander in chief. Even the slow-to-boil Obama was furious. He called in Gates and Mullen and, according to Rahm, was very blunt about his feelings: “McChrystal’s report is leaked and published. We meet for two and a half hours on Sunday and have a good discussion on the way to go, and then you go out and run way out in front of where you know I am? I can only conclude one of two
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