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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), a potential 2020 Democratic presidential contender, attacked Navy Vice Adm. Craig Faller Tuesday during his confirmation hearing to become commander of U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) over a decision 14 years ago to attend a party during a port visit to Hong Kong.<\/p>\n
Faller\u2019s attendance at the 2004 party was reported in a Washington Post article the day before the confirmation hearing. The article described a lavish party for more than 50 Navy officers from the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier strike group during a port visit to Hong Kong at a luxury hotel \u201cwhere they savored cocktails, cigars and courses of Oscietra caviar, black truffles and lobster thermidor.\u201d<\/p>\n
The article said \u201cmingling with the guests were attractive young women dressed as Santa\u2019s little helpers, wearing red hats, black boots and skimpy yuletide costumes.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Sounds pretty evil to me. How dare Naval Officers attend an evening event hosted by a Foreign National? If he didn’t <\/em>attend, sounds like he would have missed a pretty good time, not to mention missing “face time” points with Higher.<\/p>\n
The party was hosted, of course, by Fat Leonard. <\/p>\n
The commander of the strike group, now-Ret. Navy Adm. W. Douglas Crowder, told the Post that he asked Navy lawyers to review the invitation beforehand and was told it was permissible to attend, and he gave his officers the green light to go and nothing \u201cuntoward\u201d happened at the party. He said Faller left the dinner with him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Despite being cleared by the DOJ and the Navy, Warren seized on Faller\u2019s decision to attend the party as evidence of his bad judgment.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow I know that both the Department of Justice and the U.S. Navy cleared you of wrong-doing, and that your superior supposedly signed-off on the 2004 dinner, but I just have to say \u2014 this does not pass the smell test for me,\u201d she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The irony! Fauxcahontas chiding a Naval Officer on his conduct 14 years ago, long before the Fat Leonard debacle was discovered. No doubt she never refuses a chance to press the flesh at every soiree she can get to; then there’s that whole 1\/16th Indian blood she claimed for racial preference, but has yet to produce a DNA test to verify that.<\/p>\n
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