"[McMaster] is a man of extraordinary integrity and honor and he's got a president who has clearly done damage to the United States and to our relationships with our allies around the globe by revealing this information," said retired Army Lt. Colonel John Nagl, who worked alongside McMaster in Iraq. "He's walking a very fine line around the truth, parsing his words very carefully when he makes statements defending what the president said."
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An Army officer who served with H.R. McMaster says he's 'walking a very fine line around the truth'
The retired colonel also said that McMaster is a man of integrity, but in an 'impossible situation.'
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"I think he's not answering the question that he is asked, and I think that he is doing so knowing ... that he is not telling the whole truth, while being careful that he is not telling lies."
Nagl said he thinks that the "fate of the earth" is in McMaster's hands. "The administration is clearly in free fall, and McMaster is exactly the man the nation needs to have ... to hold all the pieces together."
Nagl also said that Trump is using McMaster's credibility in order to buttress himself. "His friends and I believe that it's worth HR giving up some of well-earned reputation for integrity."
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