Leaked Navy emails show top officers struggling with how to handle a former governor ensnared in sca

[Judi Lynn]

Leaked Navy emails show top officers struggling with how to handle a former governor ensnared in scandal

By Dan Lamothe May 31 at 12:53 PM


The year was just beginning when a Trump administration official contacted the Navy with a question about former Missouri governor Eric Greitens, a veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan who had resigned from office amid a sex scandal and criminal investigation.

Joseph D. Kernan, a retired admiral and Navy SEAL, knew Greitens from their time in the military. Now the Pentagon’s undersecretary of defense for intelligence, Kernan wanted to know if there was a way in which Greitens could return to military life, according to documents and emails obtained by The Washington Post.

It was not a simple question for the service.

Greitens, 45, admitted to having an extramarital affair, but denied accusations that he coerced the woman involved into a sexual act and threatened to publicize a photo of her partially nude if she ever went public with their relationship.

The charges were dismissed amid allegations of prosecutorial misconduct, and Greitens had a decorated past that included hunting al-Qaeda in combat, founding the well-regarded veterans nonprofit the Mission Continues and publishing a best-selling book that discussed his service.

More:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/navy-review-launched-after-missouri-governor-who-resigned-amid-scandal-gets-new-military-assignment/2019/05/31/0b0f4742-8221-11e9-95a9-e2c830afe24f_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.c4c312b3530e

[Ilsa]

2. If his wife isn't going to

the theater in which he is deployed to watch over him, then I would suspect he cannot be trusted. He abuses women. He will abuse enlisted women. He's trouble.

[marble falls]

3. He screwed up badly and there are consequences. He needs to get a job at the Post Office ...

and get a second pension.

They boot guys out of uniform for those same exact sorts of crimes.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

4. He is unfit to wear the uniform of the NAVY.

I have seen people discharged for less contemptable conduct, but I would not want him anywhere near women at a remote posting.