He put it down and he said, “This is not a finding.”

And I said, “I know what it is.”

And he said, “No, Camille, I need you to hear me say it, because I have watched three people in my career have this exact morning and two of them never came back and it was not because of anything anybody found.”

The suspension was correct.

I want to be precise about this because it is the part where people expect me to be bitter and I am not.

If an allegation exists that a warranted contracting officer’s spouse has been marketing access to her, then that officer cannot sign contracts while that allegation is open.