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Hey Miami reporter friends: has anyone verified whether John Kelly was even personally present at the FBI dedication in Miami?
From everything I've been able to glean, it was an event for law enforcement, not the military. Over 2,000 people attended.
There may have been a conference call in tandem, but I'm just wondering why he would have been part of that.
Kelly returned from duty in Iraq in Feb 2009. The Senate confirmed him as Lt. Gen in 2011 & he became an asst SecDef to Panetta in July 2011
He became commander of U.S. Southern Command in November 2012 and still held that job in 2015 when the event took place.
I'm NOT saying he wasn't there. Just asking whether he was there in person, mingled with the congresswoman before or after, and why.
Because his refusal to retract his statements, and murky claims that there were some other interactions that back up his story is odd.
Maybe he just heard about the event from someone else and for whatever reason, believes their account rather than the tape?
Who knows. Just inexplicable why he wouldn't just admit that he was wrong about this event and apologize for the error.
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