'Your eyes have mesmerized me': Nuclear chief escorted from Pentagon after being caught on video blabbering state secrets to impress pretty lady – We Got This Covered
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Screengrab via James O'Keefe
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‘Your eyes have mesmerized me’: Nuclear chief escorted from Pentagon after being caught on video blabbering state secrets to impress pretty lady

"You're not a spy, right?"

You might imagine that stealing top-secret information from the US military would be some Mission: Impossible-style caper involving laser beams, complex disguises, and frantic hacking. But, in a tale as old as time, the most effective way remains putting a pretty lady in a low-cut top in front of a horny guy.

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Enter the Pentagon’s Nuclear and Chemical Surety Branch Chief, Andrew Hugg, very possibly the “former” Nuclear and Chemical Surety Branch Chief by the time you read this. Hugg was the subject of an undercover investigation by conservative activist James O’Keefe, founder of Veritas Media, who has previously snared other officials with the same tactic.

Hugg went on a date with a pretty lady who was actually an undercover journalist wearing a camera and, in an effort to make her think he’s cool, spilled the beans on Trump’s Iran war plans:

Hugg confirmed to the woman that the US military is considering killing the current Iranian leader: “If he [Mojtaba Khamenei] doesn’t change his ways, yeah, they’re [United States] going to kill him”, dismissed US airstrikes killing children in Iran as “collateral damage”, confirms that the US military possesses a stock of nerve agent, and even explains that one US Army chemist recently died after accidental exposure to Sarin.

“The easiest way to get intelligence.”

In words that will likely haunt Hugg for the rest of his life, he even jokes that this date might be a honey pot:

“You’re not a spy, right? Your eyes have mesmerized me so much… So I almost gotta tell you… That’s why that’s the easiest way to get intelligence. Like just send a pretty girl to talk to the guy.”

Well, I guess he’s right about that. Soon after the story broke, reports emerged that Hugg had been escorted out of the Pentagon, followed by confirmation he was on administrative leave while the US Army conducts a “thorough investigation”.

This is absolutely the tip of the iceberg when it comes to this stuff. You can bet that both Russia and China maintain a stable of extremely pretty women in the DC area who spend their days swiping right on Tinder in the hope of snaring a government employee they can pump for sensitive information.

You would like to think that those with exposure to classified information would have it hammered into them that, under no circumstances, they should try to impress pretty ladies by telling them state military secrets. No, not even ones that are playing with their hair, batting their eyelashes at you, and especially not ones with big boobs!

But, for a lonely, horny, middle-aged guy, these women are their kryptonite. Perhaps this embarrassing moment for national security will make some guys think twice before leaking classified information to their dates in future, but frankly we doubt it.


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