RedState "A series of emails obtained by the non-profit Center to Advance Security in America confirms that officials at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point deliberately withheld evidence that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth had been accepted for admission, effectively colluding with the far-left website ProPublica's smear against the incoming Secretary of Defense.
"We first became aware that the story was about to break on December 11, when Pete Hegseth used X to get ahead of it."...
. . ."Hanlon's Razor states, "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." My initial assessment of the event attributed many things to malice that now seem to be explainable by indifference and reluctance to take responsibility. The records search was haphazard, which led to the release of an official statement that was in error. Once the error was discovered, instead of doing the right thing, a decision seemed to have been made to dummy up and let the story die on its own due to contradictory information. Giving ProPublica an off-the-record contradiction to the on-the-record statement was a chef's kiss in the whole fiasco. What they hadn't counted on was Pete Hegseth being in a very combative mode after his bruising confirmation hearing and having retained his acceptance letter from 25 years ago. When Hegseth launched his defense, the ProPublica story died and the USMA communications shop came away looking dishonest.
"That said, this was not a harmless incident. Imagine how different the story would have been if Hegseth had not had his personal letter. He would still be under a cloud of suspicion about lying about his admission to West Point." . . .
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