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In general, one doesn't get to be General with anything majorly bad in their service record. The only exception I can think of is Admiral Boorda, who went UA (called AWAOL in the Army) at the beginning of the enlisted portion of his naval carreer.
Of course, anything can be twisted around if you try hard enough... If he had the second hightest grade in a classroom of 2 people (even if it was a 3.985 vs a 3.99), it could be leaked that he came in "dead last" in an important course...
All this doesn't count any classified messages that could be unflattering if revealed. For example (and only an example... I in no way accuse Clark of being involved in something like this... this is a purely hypothetical example!), say that he recieved intelligence about a massing of enemy troops near a neutral village. The report cautions that attackingthe enemy here could cause some civillian casualties. Clark could order the attack, noting that in this case, the risk was was worth it (or even saying outright that civillian casualties while regretable, were acceptable in order to take out this threat to our troops. Such a philosophy, while possibly reprhensible, would not be unique to Clark, but would put him in an unfalttering light. Even worse, if the notes were edited to put him in the worse possible light, he couldn't prove that because the leaked memoes are classified!
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