To the editor: No matter whether or not the 2017 sexual encounter through which Pete Hegseth doesn’t deny being concerned was consensual or an assault, the police report helps the conclusion that he could be an unacceptable safety danger as Protection secretary. (“A fateful night in Monterey: Drinking, conservative banter, sexual assault allegations involving Pete Hegseth,” Nov. 22)
Not less than one third-party witness described him being drunk to the purpose of public spectacle. He doesn’t deny participating in a sexual relationship that prompted him to request a nondisclosure settlement from the girl concerned, indicating that he believed her story represented a risk to his private {and professional} status.
The identical yr the encounter came about, Hegseth divorced his second spouse whereas engaged in an extramarital affair with the girl who would grow to be his third spouse.
This sort of conduct clearly exposes him to potential blackmail. He can’t be trusted with the nation’s most vital secrets and techniques or with selections 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 Nineteen Eighties, I served because the commanding officer of the Navy ROTC unit at UC Berkeley. Again then, ladies had been prohibited from serving in fight, a coverage to which our present Protection secretary nominee wish to return now.
At some point, an assistant secretary of the Navy got here to talk. One vibrant feminine pupil 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 wish to struggle and die.”
“Do males?” she requested in response.
With these two phrases, the girl, 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, “Properly, do they?”
I needed to commend the coed proper then and there. I tilted my head in her route and nodded within the affirmative, however simply barely, as if to say, “Properly achieved.”
Stephen Sloane, Lomita
