Word: commander
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...lately the most telling shots in this guerrilla war have been called by the White House itself. The President's defense team operates with a bunker mentality, scrawling messages in erasable marker to avoid the net of subpoenas. At 8:45 every morning, the "senior command"--a dozen lawyers, political aides and spokesmen--meet in the office of deputy chief of staff John Podesta to project where the Republicans are heading and how they can be headed off. They have managed this with the collaboration of Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle while still providing most of the documents Thompson...
...officers held their breath amid almost daily charges and revelations about career-ending sexual misconduct. No sooner had the Air Force completed its awkward ejection of Lieut. Flinn than allegations of wrongdoing by officials high and low began landing in the Pentagon's backyard. Army Major General John Longhouser, commanding general of Aberdeen Proving Ground, decided last week to retire after a telephone tipster told Army investigators of an affair Longhouser had had five years ago. Army Brigadier General Stephen Xenakis was relieved of the command of all Army medical operations in the Southeast region two weeks ago because...
...disobeyed an order to stop seeing her boyfriend, Ralston had his fling when the then colonel and his first wife were separated. Because Ralston and his love, a married CIA employee, were attending the Pentagon's National War College at the time, he had no troops under his command. Cohen reasoned that Ralston didn't hurt "good order and discipline" and consequently didn't warrant punishment. The need for top military officers to serve as moral beacons "does not come from notions of perfection," Cohen said, but from possessing "the character to acknowledge our mistakes honestly and then make things...
Officer pilots in command of nuclear weapons cannot be allowed to lie and disobey direct orders without repercussions. For an officer to commit adultery with the spouse of an enlisted person is most reprehensible and inexcusable. The Air Force tried to treat Lieut. Flinn more gently, and it is unfair to fault the service because of Flinn's lying about the adulterous relationship and her refusal to follow a direct order. GEORGE G. DANIELS Orlando...
...military's "Don't-ask, don't-tell" policy practically to its limits by not mentioning an adulterous affair until he was confronted about it 13 years later, one mitigating factor was that the other party, a woman who worked for the Central Intelligence Agency, was not under his command or even in the service, and thus presented no threat to good order and discipline...