{"id":71015,"date":"2017-03-22T12:22:04","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T16:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=71015"},"modified":"2017-03-22T12:39:13","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T16:39:13","slug":"brigadier-general-ron-lewis-keeps-his-security-clearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71015","title":{"rendered":"Brigadier General Ron Lewis keeps his security clearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=68327\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-68327\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Major-General-Ron-Lewis-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-68327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Major-General-Ron-Lewis-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Major-General-Ron-Lewis-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Major-General-Ron-Lewis-266x333.jpg 266w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Major-General-Ron-Lewis.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Bobo and David send us links to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2017\/03\/21\/brig-gen-ron-lewis-ash-carter-eric-fanning-swinging-general\/99456588\/\">USAToday<\/a> which reports that Brigadier General <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68326\">Ron Lewis<\/a> who has been admonished for using his government credit card to pay for his tab at sex clubs and his habitual drunkenness while accompanying the Secretary of Defense. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cYou are reprimanded for unprofessional conduct while serving in a position of great trust that impugns your personal and professional judgment,\u201d Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Daniel Allyn wrote in a letter to Lewis in December that was obtained by USA TODAY. \u201cSpecifically you engaged in a pattern of inappropriate behavior that included patronizing establishments of questionable character, drinking to excess in public venues, and inappropriately interacting with female civilian and military personnel.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Despite all of that, Big Army is recommending that he keep his security clearance;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Maj. Gen. Lewis was suspended from his job by the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and was under investigation by the Department of Defense for nearly a year,&#8221; said Army spokesman Michael Brady. &#8220;During that time, DOD allowed him to retain his clearance. Given that DOD deemed him fit to retain his clearance, and that there were no allegations of mishandling classified materials in their investigation, the Army did, in fact, recommend he be allowed to retain a clearance. However, the decision is not the Army&#8217;s to make.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wouldn&#8217;t trust him to clean my cat&#8217;s box let alone with our nation&#8217;s secrets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bobo and David send us links to USAToday which reports that Brigadier General Ron Lewis who &hellip; <a title=\"Brigadier General Ron Lewis keeps his security clearance\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71015\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Brigadier General Ron Lewis keeps his security clearance<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[198],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-army"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/68327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}