Sen. Bob Menendez, former Chair of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is indicted for acting as a foreign agent to benefit Egypt.
Manuel Rocha, a former Ambassador to Cuba, will plead guilty to charges he conspired to act as an agent of Cuba.
Two years ago, former Marine Corps General John Allen resigned from his post as president of Brookings Institution amid a DOJ investigation into whether he illegally lobbied on behalf of the nation of Qatar.
DOJ dropped the charges but, in 2023, Congress released findings that 77 general officers and admirals had taken high-paying gigs with foreign countries.
The bigger question is why? At an age when most Americans re-discover the soapy drama of daytime television, the politicians and generals venture deeper into the jungle.
The generals and military bigshots are most troubling.
Their high moral standards made them leaders, and formed the basis for their credibility to ask young Americans to kill or be killed in combat.
As generals transition to civilian life, apparently, they discover what can be gained by switching sides and corrupting into your opposite.
The opportunity to become sandwich-board twirlers for foreign governments is turning once-virtuous leaders into human directionals for money, attention and other regime goodies.
Because the generals sold out, they're not special anymore.
The generals are hunting diamonds now, and we should treat them accordingly.
https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2024/03/11/four-star_sell-outs_1017175.html
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