Red Romance

Tim Walz may have broken the rules of engagement:

Members of the U.S. government and military — particularly if they hold a security clearance — are warned to avoid romantic trysts with foreigners while traveling overseas, since it could lead to a situation where they are blackmailed for classified information or another kind of situation where U.S. national security could be put at risk. In fact, members of the U.S. military are typically required to report travel to a hostile nation to their unit ahead of time. As Breitbart News reported: Members of the United States military are typically required to report to or request permission from their command before traveling overseas — especially if they have a security clearance and they are traveling to a country hostile to U.S. interests, such as China. This is because members of the U.S. military are enticing targets of foreign espionage and exploitation. When traveling to hostile countries, they will often receive a defensive briefing before they go, on what to watch out for. Upon returning, they are sometimes asked to provide a briefing of the trip on who they met with and if anything out of the ordinary happened. Walz, at the time he taught English in China, had served in the military for eight years, having joined at 17 in 1981 and traveled to China at 25 in 1989.

It seems they learned more than he thought...