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Home Front: Culture Wars
Panetta orders ethics review for US top brass
2012-11-17
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Defence Secretary Leon Panetta
...current SecDef, previously Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Panetta served as President Bill Clinton's White House Chief of Staff from 1994 to 1997 and was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1993....
ordered US military commanders on Thursday to carry out a review of ethics training among senior officers amid a widening sex scandal that cost CIA chief David Petraeus his job.
Troops are coming home, so we can dump the horny war-fighters and retain the bloodless but politically reliable yes men...
Recent cases of misconduct involving the top brass had "the potential to erode public confidence in our leadership and in our system for the enforcement of our high ethical standards", Panetta, on a tour of Asia, wrote in a memo to the military's top-ranking officer, General Martin Dempsey.

"Worse, they can be detrimental to the execution of our mission to defend the American people," he wrote.

The announcement comes in the wake of a scandal that prompted the resignation of the former four-star general and CIA director Petraeus, as well as a litany of allegations and disciplinary action against other senior military leaders.

Panetta directed Dempsey and the chiefs of the armed services to examine "existing ethics training programmes to determine if they are adequate" and to report back with their findings within a few weeks.
Posted by:Fred

#5  Training all around!
In good places!
Posted by: Shipman   2012-11-17 17:35  

#4  "I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!" - Captain Renault

Well Mr Panetta, you and your boss wanted to make the military look more like the general society. So what's wrong with generals who act like Senators and Presidents with loose zipper disease just across the Potomac or interesting ethics in insider trading? And while we're at it, you all decided that sexual behavior wasn't grounds for punishment unless it effected military readiness. Has it in these cases?

"Your winnings, sir." - Croupier

"Oh Lord, please make my enemies ridiculous" - Voltaire
Posted by: Procopius2k   2012-11-17 11:27  

#3  Wonder if the Pentagon will do as the Fortune 500 firms do, and hold the ethics review at the Greenbriar?

Really not much difference between the two nowadays.
Posted by: Pappy   2012-11-17 10:47  

#2  Ethics and morality; if you don't have a sufficient supply by age 60 and promotion to 09 or 10, it is unlikely you'll ever get it.
Posted by: Besoeker   2012-11-17 03:54  

#1  "...well, not cabinet level, and nobody elected of course, well at the state level maybe, and, and who's got those waivers?"
Posted by: Skidmark   2012-11-17 01:31  

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