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In reply to the discussion: Pete Hegseth is now bringing his wife to Pentagon meetings after he ousted top officials: report [View all]BumRushDaShow
(171,553 posts)56. My first thought as well
Even if she wasn't, I'm sure she gas plenty of contacts to feed info to.
From my time working for the DoD (Bush II and Obama) I remember our annual required Ethics training talking about how important it was to avoid even the "appearance of impropriety."
I am assuming that is no longer a thing.
I am assuming that is no longer a thing.
It's a thing for the lowly civil servants but not so much for the GS-1000s.
I was a fed from the start of Raygun's 2nd term through to the first couple weeks of 45's first term and every damn year, we ran the flaming gauntlet of annual "Ethics" training and that included 3 major revisions to the Hatch Act (under Poppy, Clinton, and Obama). I remember at one point when there was confusion about whether feds could even display lawn signs at their residence or a bumper sticker on their car.
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Pete Hegseth is now bringing his wife to Pentagon meetings after he ousted top officials: report [View all]
BumRushDaShow
Yesterday
OP
Maybe she's there because he can't remember details when he's blackout drunk
johnnyplankton
Yesterday
#7
How quaint.........next up give her the code book for the missiles going thru Cheyenne Mountain..........
turbinetree
Yesterday
#18
Trump Been Lootin', evil mastermind of crashing Pete Hegseth into the Pentagon.
RedWhiteBlueIsRacist
Yesterday
#19
I thought he hated women in the military. Guess it's OK for military meetings when your wife
Marie Marie
19 hrs ago
#37