{"id":5784,"date":"2005-11-09T10:52:07","date_gmt":"2005-11-09T15:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=5784"},"modified":"2005-11-09T10:52:07","modified_gmt":"2005-11-09T15:52:07","slug":"the-guy-who-needs-the-ethics-class-most-wont-get-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/the-guy-who-needs-the-ethics-class-most-wont-get-it\/","title":{"rendered":"The guy who needs the ethics class most won&#8217;t get it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Late last week, Bush ordered the entire White House staff to attend mandatory briefings on ethical behavior and the handling of classified materials. The Bush gang made a point of emphasizing that everyone has to take the refresher course; the memo to the staff <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/11\/04\/AR2005110402040.html\">specifically explains<\/a>, &#8220;There will be no exceptions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, it depends on how you define &#8220;staff.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The courses, run by Harriet Miers and Ethics Officer Richard Painter, began yesterday. But as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2005\/11\/20051108.html\">yesterday&#8217;s press briefing<\/a> made clear, there&#8217;s at least one person in the White House who needs the course but won&#8217;t get it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Q: Scott, is anyone in the White House exempt from participating in these and &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>McClellan: No, it&#8217;s a mandatory session.<\/p>\n<p>Q: Would the Vice President have to attend?<\/p>\n<p>McClellan: It&#8217;s mandatory for all White House staff. That&#8217;s who it&#8217;s for.<\/p>\n<p>Q: And he&#8217;s considered staff?<\/p>\n<p>McClellan: No, he&#8217;s considered the Vice President. (Laughter.)<\/p>\n<p>Q: So he does not have to attend?<\/p>\n<p>McClellan: All White House staff is required to participate in these sessions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Pity. If anyone needs to be reminded about ethical standards, it&#8217;s the Vice President.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late last week, Bush ordered the entire White House staff to attend mandatory briefings on ethical behavior and the handling of classified materials. The Bush gang made a point of emphasizing that everyone has to take the refresher course; the memo to the staff specifically explains, &#8220;There will be no exceptions.&#8221; Unfortunately, it depends on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}