You are correct: I don't like the guy either, think he set M.E. relations back 30 yr, & think he shoulda gone to prison, but there's nothing about his USMC career, nothing about how he got the job @the NSC (an active duty Marine in a civilian govt. position & so out of the USMC chain of command), & nothing about how he came to know CIA director Casey, whom he told the hearings committee was like a father to him & for whom he basically worked.