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> was the Obama administration fine with employees expressing opinions that conflicted with Obama's views? I saw it many times. For example, military officers
by hackuser 10y ago
> was the Obama administration fine with employees expressing opinions that conflicted with Obama's views?
I saw it many times. For example, military officers did openly debate the gender issues before a decision was made (I don't know about after).
- tropo 10y agoThey were not allowed to support the A-10 or oppose the F-35.
- hackuser 10y agoCertainly there is always some of that around in any organization: Don't undermine your boss. Some bosses are more open or effective at that than others. The executive branch has well over a million employees, so everything you can imagine is probably going on somewhere all the time. In those cases, I think those situations were local to Pentagon programs; they were not instructions from the White House; they weren't blanket gag orders for whole departments on every issue.