(July 12, 2017 at 3:41 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Even as a lowly E-2, I had to complete an ethics statement docementing any personal connection I might have with both superiors and contractors, as well as tax info etc.
This, and I guarantee that any classified information I had access to was far, far less interesting than what a White House staffer has, much less the president.
We received lectures on ethics on a regular basis, particularly but not exclusively as applied to security (i.e. if one does something unethical that one could get blackmailed for should the wrong people find out about it, one becomes an lucrative target for foreign intelligence agents).
Such things are for the little people, obv.