Emails Show Pence Helped ex-Governor and Former SEAL Return to the Navy

| August 2, 2020

Jerry Lambe, a journalist at the website Law & Crime, cited the Kansas City Star newspaper and contends that VP Pence used his influence to get ex-Missouri governor Eric Greitens back into the U.S. Navy after being ousted as governor.

New Emails Show Mike Pence Got Disgraced Governor Back Into the Navy After Sex Crime Charge: Report

The office of Vice President Mike Pence used political pressure to get former Missouri governor Eric Greitens reinstated into the Navy despite those in command stating they wanted nothing to do with the scandal-plagued former SEAL, the Kansas City Star reported Saturday.

The Star obtained  850 pages of documents through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request which showed top brass at the Navy were extremely concerned with Greitens’ history, which included a 2018 felony charge of sexual misconduct and another felony charge for computer tampering. Though both charges were eventually dropped, Greitens, who won Missouri’s gubernatorial race as an unlikely outsider candidate in 2016, was forced to resign from office.

Emails revealed from the FOIA request show Vice Adm. Robert Burke, then the Navy’s Chief of Personnel, saying that if Greitens was not a civilian at the time of the allegations, the Navy would have prosecuted him under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

I’m not sure of the political leanings of Lambe or of Law & Crime, but it does strike me as more of an OP-ED than news.

I was hard-pressed to find any email or quote directly attributable to VP Mike Pence, but I could have overlooked something.  It was a third party characterization of intent, although the third party is a credible source – I still found it somewhat obscure if he was stating if he heard those discussions first hand or if he was referring to hearing of them.  Maybe I missed the obvious.  Could be all true, however.

The Saint Louis Times-Dispatch posted a similar story.  That article also stemmed from the Kansas City Star newspaper report.

All charges were eventually dropped against Greitens but not before the entire thing brought his political career to an abrupt end.

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Fyrfighter

” All charges dropped”.. seems like a non-story to me…

Stacy0311

Not like he needed an age and drug waiver to get in the Navy unlike some people. Or popped hot on a piss test after he got in….

Fyrfighter

SHHHHHH you’re not supposed to remember / mention that!
You must be some kind of Dog Faced Pony Soldier!

Slow Joe

I don’t care.

I am voting for Trump, regardless of anything the Democrats can come up with as the election approaches.

I am ready for the October surprise!

26Limabeans

Funny thing about Trump campaign signs, you
put one on your lawn and a few days later your
neighbors are putting them out.
Don’t know about Indian country but seems to work
around these parts.

MI Ranger

When are the Democrats going to drop the “pro-slavery” name and call themselves what they are: The Socialist Liberal Union and Teachers party!

A Proud Infidel®™

It’s not like he got his Son appointed to the Board of some Foreign-owned Company with a seven-figure salary as a way of peddling influence along with a quid pro quo getting an Investigator fired in exchange for Foreign Aid money like Joe Biden did!

UpNorth

You’re just throwing out seagull bait, guys.

26Limabeans

We used to toss a piece of dry ice rolled up in bread
onto the beach as bait. The gull would eat it and fly off
only to have an intestinal explosion in flight.

Jeff LPH 3, 63-66

Never heard of dry ice but have heard of Alka Seltzer in a piece of rolled up bread.

SCPO USN Ret.

Tobasco in the center of a rolled up piece of bread was the low tech solution at NAB Little Creek (told to me by a friend)

rgr769

Or, he got his son a direct commission as a Navy reserve officer who subsequently got booted because he is a coke head.

We should all remember that Greitens alleged crime of revenge porn was prosecuted by that evil Black Soros elected scrunt St. Louie DA, who subsequently admitted to the court she had no evidence. She admitted they didn’t even have the photo or proof one was published on the internet. It was just another
law fare hoax crime pushed against a Republican to remove him from office.

Mason

I don’t think the kid made it past the Gunga Dan line either.

rgr769

He didn’t even complete an officers’ basic course. As a direct commission, he was only sent to a few week course to learn how to salute and wear the uniform.

Claw

The Navy’s Reserve Training Program DCOIC ((Direct Commission Officer Indoctrination Course) was only two weeks long back in 2013, so not even a “few” weeks. (Smile)

rgr769

One has to wonder if ol’ Hunter was snorting blow off a stripper’s belly during that two weeks.

A Proud Infidel®™

I seriously wonder if Hunter Biden did even the bare minimum for that course expecting his Daddy and his minions to wipe his ass for him?

KoB

The emails sent musta gone thru Hitlery’s server since they can’t be found. Musta been mixed in with all the ones about the wedding plans, or shopping trips…or something.

CSCT396B

*Sigh* Where to be begin…Let’s just say I was a state employee during Greiten’s extremely short tenure as governor of Missouri. I voted for Greitens. After 8 years of Jay Nixon, we were ready for a republican to take office. We thought we were finally getting a governor that would have our back.

We were wrong. He talked a good game but did nothing for us. He was a blow hard that had no problem seizing upon any opportunity to venerate his administration even if that meant manipulating the truth of the matter at hand.

Anyways, the most egregious thing he decided to do was dismantle our employee merit system by signing merit reform legislation into law hours before he resigned his office, making us all at will employees. Because of this legislation, in the past 2 years I’ve witnessed a significant decrease in the quality of employee that is hired by the state.

I guess the one silver lining from the whole Greitens debacle is Governor Parsons taking his place. He’s done a lot more for us than any other administration and is a staunch ally of president Trump.

Anyways, if the Navy wants to take back Greitens into their fold, that’s on them. Maybe he’ll take the lessons he learned from his time as governor and apply them towards serving his country dutifully and diligently. All I know is, he better relish this opportunity as any regular joe smoe guy that did the things he did, wouldn’t get a second chance like this.

5th/77th FA

Tanks for the local insights CSCT. Hard to tell from the “he/she/they said” what the real story is. And we may never know “the rest of the story.” Guess we’d have to read all of the released info to get some idea. I’d put more stock in your version of what’s going on than any of the newsies. Never did see a definitive statement that VP Pence had pushed for any of this. Who knows, it could be like we saw from the dog robber comments. Somebody could have insinuated that was what the VP wanted and didn’t bother to elaborate. If the former guv/SEAL is guilty of what all is alleged, then he is a real piece of work.

Full disclosure. Have a (step) Daughter married with chil’ren outside of St Louis. She and the grands are nurses, husband is a manager for the hockey team (Go Big Blue). I’ve driven thru/visited the Show Me State a number of times since ’93 and have noticed a deterioration in the “quality of life”. Big regret is not having taken/had the time to visit the Arch. Crime and political climate precludes a trip thru there now. Would have driven thru southern and western MO this past June on my cancelled road trip.

rgr769

He wasn’t guilty of anything. That same St. Louis DA that charged the lawers for defending their home was Greitens’ prosecutor. She admitted she had zero evidence to prove the charge against him.

5th/77th FA

Yeah I read into that rgr769, and kept clicking on the additional stories in both papers till their paywalls kicked in. Knew that politics was involved, and was thinking that the same kind of BS that took down Herman Cain’s campaign was in play here. Hard to tell from purt near 800 miles away. At the end of the day, I basically don’t trust any politician anymore, believe nothing that I read in the news, and only about half of what I see with my own eyes. Sad, ain’t it?

SFC D

Thanks for that. Always good to have a report from someone that’s been there instead of a politically based screech.

USMC Steve

I live in Missouri as well, and I have not seen that. Parsons was a proponent of unconstitutional and illegal red flag gun confiscation laws, and up until the last month or so, was largely asleep at the wheel, until election time, then he woke up and started doing stuff.

As to At Will employees, I would think as a Federal employee, that this would serve to get rid of the shitbirds who could not be fired before, even thought they were underperforming, to retire on our dime. The Civil Service needs something like that. I know a number of people who are Federal level oxygen thieves, but cannot be fired under the current system.

The Other Whitey

So Greitens is a massive step up from Gavin Newsom, then?

rgr769

Had to be. Newsome has never done anything except be a politician and live off his family’s money and connections.

CSCT396B

Of course lol. Who wouldn’t be a step up from Newsome. Except maybe Cuomo.

The Other Whitey

See? It can always be worse. You could be here in California!

CSCT396B

I don’t know if Greitens did everything he was accused of doing. What I do know is that he committed adultery with the now ex wife of a musician / cohost of a popular local radio morning show in St. Louis. I know adultery isn’t that big of a deal legally in the civilian world but if he would have been in the Navy when this came to light, he would have been in a lot of trouble.

USMC Steve

First, I would ask if Greitens resigned his commission. If he did not, then he was still in the Navy. Just not on active duty. And they Navy has not prosecuted him for Adultery, yet, so he is not in trouble with them as yet.

As to the story, this dude is a leftist, and the paper reporting it is notoriously leftard, so I give it no credibility. Even so, does the VP actually fall in anyone’s chain of command if they are not acting as the President?

Jarhead

A politician found or not found guilty these days is so often pre-determined by whomever is hand-picked to investigate and bring the matter to to a close. The word rhetoric applies to all charges and investigations, used extensively to justify the end results. Think this guy is a squeaky clean person? Read this and then answer the question again. As written again a few days ago, “When at first we seek to deceive”….At the very least the term “SHAMELESS” applies to his (lack of) character. As 5/77 pointed out, it’s a POLITICIAN we are discussing here. Whaddaya spex?
https://apnews.com/e7e6479b83a545bdafa0cd20a1a63174/greitens-taps-charity-donors-missouri-gubernatorial-bid

MI Ranger

Jarhead,
Based on the story “facts” it is not possible to sperate the two. “Greitens received nearly 14 percent of his money from donors who previously gave at least $1,000 to The Mission Continues or who are tied to businesses and foundations that did.” It also mentions that 85% of his initial donations were from people who previously contributed to his charity.
This is like saying white people are European, or Hispanics speak Spanish. There are definite corollaries between the two existences, but they are not one in the same. As Greitens said they are people that got to know him for his charity work. How did the Charity get its donation list, what is its origins? Could the two also have a correlation? Unless you can prove that he handed you a list of people to call and it said the name of his charity at the top of it, it is all just circumstantial evidence.

Jarhead

Why not defend Hunter Biden while you are at it? I did not write the story, merely copied and posted. A guy who was fined $178,000 by State campaign ethics commission for campaign finance violations
is bound to be another poor peasant who has been viciously attacked by some journalist seeking to win an award for reporting the truth. https://www.kansascity.com/article244634492.html
I’m not Lisa and I’m damned sure not Lars, so it matters not to me.