administration. i think he deserves six months of combat pay. it s been a very, very difficult six months. i ve been a republican for 30 years. i served in the bush administration. i ve seen a lot of administrations come and go in washington. and there is a whole new attitude in time around toward personal conflicts of interest and also toward the freedom of the press and other fundamental values we hold deer in this country. when you have the president just this week threatening to derail the att dsh the time warner deal because he doesn t like the presses knch o kwonch from krn krn that is exactly the type of thing that needs to be reined in and the office of government ethics has a critical role in dealing with conflicts of interest. but if the administration doesn t want to take ethics seriously it s a very difficult job for wamter and others in his position. i m not surprised to see him go. you negligenced that i want to get to that i m glad you
ethics has a critical role in dealing with conflicts of interest. but if the administration doesn t want to take ethics seriously it s a very difficult job for wamter and others in his position. i m not surprised to see him go. you negligenced that i want to get to that i m glad you brought up the issue around the merger. but before we do. we talked about the approach to ethics by the white house. he o i consulted you for your expertise about this at the time process we put in a freedom of information request to look into his dealings with the in white house. and which could be boring. but instead this is what we found a message of him hitting the panic button emailing eye i m not sure whether you re aware that announcing this cabinet without coordinating with the office of ethics is unprecedented appear creates unnecessary risk and creates unnecessary risk. we have no reliable lienls of kmings with the transition team. a circumstance unprecedented. explain that. it sounds like his v