DOD Sex Scandal Keeps Boiling Despite Fourth Place Billing

Friday morning at 06:00 sharp, Colonel Randy Boener, gender affairs commander, the Joint Chiefs of Staff Military Conduct Policy Task Force, strode smartly into my office and took the seat directly in front of my desk. “It’s a pleasure to meet you, Colonel… um…” I began, stymied as I looked at his name tag. “That’s pronounced BEN-hur,”… Continue reading DOD Sex Scandal Keeps Boiling Despite Fourth Place Billing

David Petraeus and John Allen Caught in General Scandal

Early Friday morning, a person identifying themself as Robin Tracey Innis Masozi Dale began calling my office in Washington DC, more or less pestering the dickens out of poor Gretchen, my private secretary, by urgently asking for a telephone consultation, over and over again.  As it happened, I couldn’t spare a minute – I was booked solid until six… Continue reading David Petraeus and John Allen Caught in General Scandal

OMB Sequestration Report Cuts the Cheese in Washington

A billion here… a billion there… pretty soon you’re talking about some real money. – Everett Dirksen’s Eccentric Aunt Tilly At the moment, by far the most popular US government document over three hundred pages here in Washington is the Office of Management and Budget’s Report Pursuant to the Sequestration Transparency Act of 2012.  For… Continue reading OMB Sequestration Report Cuts the Cheese in Washington

Spy vs Spy vs CIA Drone vs Iran

Across the street from the Verizon Center here in Washington DC is the national headquarters of the AARP.  In the basement of that building is a large, well-lighted parking garage with atypically high ceilings.  Unquestionably, if you’re going to have a clandestine rendezvous in a parking garage, it’s a very good choice. Thus, I was there… Continue reading Spy vs Spy vs CIA Drone vs Iran