To the editor: No matter whether or not the 2017 sexual encounter wherein Pete Hegseth doesn’t deny being concerned was consensual or an assault, the police report helps the conclusion that he can be an unacceptable safety danger as Protection secretary. (“A fateful night time in Monterey: Ingesting, conservative banter, sexual assault allegations involving Pete Hegseth,” Nov. 22)
A minimum of one third-party witness described him being drunk to the purpose of public spectacle. He doesn’t deny partaking in a sexual relationship that prompted him to request a nondisclosure settlement from the lady concerned, indicating that he believed her story represented a menace to his private {and professional} fame.
The identical 12 months the encounter came about, Hegseth divorced his second spouse whereas engaged in an extramarital affair with the lady who would turn out to be his third spouse.
This type of conduct clearly exposes him to attainable blackmail. He can’t be trusted with the nation’s most essential secrets and techniques or with choices that have an effect on the nation’s safety on the highest ranges.
John Miller, Irvine
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To the editor: Within the Eighties, I served because the commanding officer of the Navy ROTC unit at UC Berkeley. Again then, ladies have been prohibited from serving in fight, a coverage to which our present Protection secretary nominee want to return now.
In the future, an assistant secretary of the Navy got here to talk. One vibrant feminine scholar requested, “Why is it that the Navy is not going to assign ladies to jobs that may contain fight?” Our VIP customer answered, “It’s as a result of ladies don’t need to struggle and die.”
“Do males?” she requested in response.
With these two phrases, the lady, who would later serve honorably as an officer aboard a ship, mentioned all that wanted to be mentioned to make clear the problem.
I gazed at her. She checked out me. The assistant secretary glanced at me. I confronted the secretary and shrugged my shoulders as if to say, “Effectively, do they?”
I needed to commend the coed proper then and there. I tilted my head in her course and nodded within the affirmative, however simply barely, as if to say, “Effectively completed.”
Stephen Sloane, Lomita
