{"id":14834,"date":"2018-03-19T22:12:37","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T03:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=14834"},"modified":"2018-03-19T22:12:37","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T03:12:37","slug":"no-personal-loyalty-permitted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/03\/19\/no-personal-loyalty-permitted\/","title":{"rendered":"No Personal Loyalty Permitted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I heard that President Trump had his White House advisors and staff sign Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs), I thought nothing of it. So much for my assumptions, eh? The\u00a0<i><b>ACLU\u00a0<\/b><\/i>has an admirably brief\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/news\/aclu-statement-white-house-nondisclosure-agreements\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/news\/aclu-statement-white-house-nondisclosure-agreements&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1521584857642000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHBG2MTSa791nJnGFLiFIM707so-w\">remark\u00a0<\/a>on these NDAs:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"gmail_quote\"><p>\u201cPublic employees can\u2019t be gagged by private agreements. These so-called NDAs are unconstitutional and unenforceable.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Which is admirably sensible in a public institution in which we all have an explicit stake, isn&#8217;t it? If a White House staffer witnesses some breach of the Constitution, s\/he should not have to weigh their future economic fortunes against their duty to report the violation. Nor should they be restrained from writing a memoir, for that matter, about public matters.<\/p>\n<p>If President Trump should like to complain that his private matters should not be a matter of public airing,\u00a0<i>then he should not bring them into the White House<\/i>. That is one of the virtues of divestment in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I heard that President Trump had his White House advisors and staff sign Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs), I thought nothing of it. So much for my assumptions, eh? The\u00a0ACLU\u00a0has an admirably brief\u00a0remark\u00a0on these NDAs: \u201cPublic employees can\u2019t be gagged by private agreements. These so-called NDAs are unconstitutional and unenforceable.\u201d Which \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/03\/19\/no-personal-loyalty-permitted\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14835,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14834\/revisions\/14835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}