Summary
"I'm off to speak again with my Little Darlings at the Academy," said then-Air Force Secretary James Roche's April 28, 2003, e-mail to Robin Cleveland, associate director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Roche trusted Cleveland sufficiently to put in writing his dismissive description of female Air Force Academy cadets who had been raped. Indeed, 11 days later on May 9, Cleveland was asking Roche for help in getting her brother a job with a big defense contractor.
Roche complied, though Peter Cleveland ultimately did not get the job with Northrop Grumman. In responding to Robin Cleveland, Roche put in a plug for the attempted $23.5 billion sweetheart deal for the Boeing Co. to build tankers for the Air Force: "Be well. Smile. Give tankers now. (Oops, did I say that?)" On May 15, Robin Cleveland sent her brother an e-mail about his upcoming interview at Northrop Grumman: "Great. Hope it works before the tanker leasing deal gets fouled up." But Cleveland reversed OMB opposition to the tankers.See the full content of this document
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Eisenhower Was Right to Warn Us
A MULTIBILLION-DOLLAR bailout for a troubled aircraft manufacturer entangled with a senior government official trying to place her brother in the defense industry confi...
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