My point seems to have been missed though.
WHO pays for his training in the Army? - A job he can NEVER do (rightly or wrongly)
Someone, somewhere has missed out on that training.
You are ignoring the possibility that he is the best man for the job.
And you are ignoring that fact that if the Australian media and the Drudge report had not publicised this, then it would have been a secret and he could have done his job. It is the media who are the disgrace not him.