Exclusive: Pentagon spokeswoman under investigation for misusing staff, retaliating...

[DonViejo]

Source: CNN



Exclusive: Pentagon spokeswoman under investigation for misusing staff, retaliating against complaints

By Barbara Starr, CNN Pentagon Correspondent

Updated 3:59 PM ET, Tue August 14, 2018

Washington (CNN) - One of Defense Secretary James Mattis' most senior civilian advisers is being investigated by the Defense Department Office of Inspector General for allegedly retaliating against staff members after she used some of them to conduct her personal errands and business matters, according to four sources familiar with the probe.

Dana White, the Trump administration political appointee who serves as the Pentagon's chief spokeswoman, has been under investigation for several weeks after multiple complaints were filed against her.

White is alleged to have misused support staff, asking them, among other things, to fetch her drycleaning, run to the pharmacy for her and work on her mortgage paperwork. Staffers also charge that she inappropriately transferred personnel after they filed complaints about her.

White has not been found in violation of any federal regulation or policy at this point. The inspector general's office declined to comment.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/14/politics/pentagon-white-spox-probe/index.html

[jayschool2013]

1. If this country were run like a business

The shareholders (us) would call an immediate meeting of the board and request a vote of no-confidence for the CEO and all other officers and administrators, and then begin asking people to clean out their desks and move on, starting at the top.

So much corruption. So much corruption.

[erronis]

2. But this administration/congress is doing everything it can to gut business best practices

Whether it's for the government as-a-business or just real commercial enterprises.

They don't want open reporting. They want a dump model of screw everyone else.

[dalton99a]

3. Trump political appointees should be purged from the government.

Corruption seems to be their sole qualification.

[lapfog_1]

4. I was going to say that she has a future on Faux Snooze should she be fired for this

but then reading her background...

"Before coming to the Department of Defense, Ms. White was the Director of the Washington Roundtable for the Asia-Pacific Press at The Heritage Foundation and a publicist for the Fox News Channel. "

[Achilleaze]

5. The republicans put a five-time Draft-dodging casino hustler in charge of the Pentagon

and so the shit and piss keep on rolling downhill. Deplorable on the part of the republicans for so disrespecting our American military.

[Mc Mike]

6. A tRump admin appointee, behaving thus?

Surprise surprise surprise.

[mpcamb]

7. "The inspector general's office declined..." Rule on it, you spineless cowards!

Call it what it is so she's on the defensive and punish the innocent.