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Leonard Wong on Honesty and Ethics in the Military

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Do You Guys Ever Lie?

"We don't think about it's lying, we just think, this is- whatever one does, that's the way you do business," he says. "The whole profession is built on trust and so for me to say, do you guys ever lie? It's like, you gotta be- Why are you asking that?" And then literally add some people put their head in their hands and say, okay, fine, I lie,. But nobody wants to say it, because what we do is we cover it up with euphemisms. Or we offer rationalizations."

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