[Romulus]

There is no smoking gun here. You don’t lose the right to have a private life when you become SECDEF. Gates has a home telephone number too, I imagine. Nothing wrong with correspondence of a non-business nature moving in non-business channels. That’s the way it’s supposed to work.

I assume we all knew already that these people are a very tight circle and stay in touch?

[grey_whiskers]

Which is why he promises to check it every hour or so during the working day?

They can exchange recipes for cheese pizza *AFTER* work.