Former Pentagon spokeswoman Dana White misused staff to fetch snacks, and schedule home makeup appointments, an investigation found.
WASHINGTON – Former top Pentagon spokeswoman Dana W. White misused staff to tend to her personal needs, such as fetching lunch and snacks, driving her around and scheduling makeup appointments in her home, an inspector general investigation found.
In the report, a lawyer for White disagreed with the conclusions and said “the tasks in question were all job-related.” "Every decision I made was to advance our mission and maximize our impact," she said. White said the inspector general"unfairly maligned routine acts of kindness done in every office in the Pentagon."
The inspector general conducted interviews and reviewed emails and other documents and concluded that, when she was at the Pentagon, White tasked aides with buying train tickets for her personal trips, including at least one to New York for a hair appointment. They also made personal medical appointments for White.
Staff said she had an aide book makeup artists on a weekly basis for Pentagon briefings. In one case, she had staff arrange for a makeup artist to come to her home in preparation for the White House Correspondents Association dinner in 2018. When the artist didn’t show up, White was “livid,” an aide told investigators.
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