Carol Zink: A true leader owns up to mistakes, lays out corrective action plan

To The Daily Sun,

Regarding the security breach:

While on active duty as a Naval Officer decades ago, I was my command’s classified material control office, one of my numerous collateral duties. We had confidential, secret, and a small amount of top secret material — all print. Monthly we had to do an audit and sign off on what was going in a burn bag. Triple signatures required, bags sealed and signed, two people to take the bags to the burn center and stay to watch them go into the incinerator ... As a Naval Reserve officer, I had to use a scramble phone (landline) for any classified conversations and for many years worked in a sealed, windowless building accessible with identification. My daughters (active duty Naval officer, civilian employee of USMC and a USMC Reserve officer) are not allowed to take their personal devices into the buildings where they work — and they are way down the food chain from the secretary of defense, the head of the CIA, the head of the NSA. Those clowns ought to be fired. A true leader owns up to mistakes and lays out a corrective action plan; a true leader resigns in disgrace rather than let down his or her team.

Carol Zink

Holderness