Monday, May 12, 2008
Conduct unbecoming
The recently identified trend of sex in the office has gone decidedly too far:
Vice Adm. John Stufflebeem seemed to have it all. He rose from deck seaman to a Naval Academy football star whose punting prowess earned him the nickname “Boomer” and a part-time practice gig with the Detroit Lions...
And then it all began to unravel.
In January, an anonymous letter revealed an 18-year-old secret that Stufflebeem thought was long buried and forgotten. The letter accused Stufflebeem of carrying on an eight-month affair with a female State Department staffer while the two were assigned to the White House in 1990.
Stufflebeem, then a 37-year-old commander, pretended to be a widower, telling the woman that his wife had died of breast cancer and that he was raising his two children on his own, according to the Inspector General’s report, obtained by Navy Times through the Freedom of Information Act.
In fact, Stufflebeem was still living with his wife at the time.
The report says Stufflebeem had sex with the State Department staffer in sleeping quarters in the White House basement and when the two traveled abroad with the White House travel team. The two engaged in “passionate kissing” in a car parked near the White House grounds, and he even sexually propositioned the woman’s close friend on a trip to London, the report says.
An eighteen year-old affair, and an admiral is done. Why? Because he lied to the investigators. Why were there investigators? Because somebody sent an anonymous letter in January 2008 disclosing the affair from 1990.
You really need to hate somebody to send a letter like that.
CWCID: Jungle Trader.
3 Comments:
By 
, at
Tue May 13, 10:07:00 AM:
Well, the Navy knew about this affair back in 1990 when it took place. He worked at the White House as liasion officer - Mrs. Bush loved him - and was quickly replaced when it came out.
They kept it quiet ever since.
By , at
Tue May 13, 07:31:00 PM:
Do you really need to hate someone to ask that rules be enforced evenly?
I am amazed at the large number of high ranking officers and NCOs who cover up for their buddies rather than telling the truth. After all each of the services has a code of honor and they all claim to uphold the highest integrity. Instead, honor and integrity are only talked about. It's about time that he paid the bar bill.
If you took notice, he was not demoted and was allowed to retire rather than facing the real music.
Dave
By 
Dawnfire82, at
Tue May 13, 11:58:00 PM:
"I am amazed at the large number of high ranking officers and NCOs who cover up for their buddies rather than telling the truth."
High ranking nothing. That runs through all ranks, especially among NCOs (who are not direct competitors with one another and therefore have no systemic incentive to sell out the baddies). I refer to it as 'the NCO mafia,' with its own code of silence and everything.
