If Sylvester Stallone were to make “Rambo 5” and have his hero take on the Washington swamp, he wouldn’t have to do more to create a Hollywood set than use the office of President Trump’s Interior secretary.
There, he would find a scary grizzly bear and Montana bobcat picked by Secretary Ryan Zinke to show off the state he represented in Congress and some tools of his trade while a Navy SEAL for 23 years.
In a drawer, he keeps his SEAL knife collection showing that over two decades of design changes, the final knife he received was practically a copy of his first, proof of bureaucratic bungling. “You look at it and you just shake your head,” he said, an example of waste he wants to avoid.
The Examiner’s Travis J. Tritten posted a video of Zinke describing the collection when he was with Stars and Stripes.
From in interview with Stars and Stripes.
Then, there is Zinke’s carved wooden panel, one of nine, from the bedroom door of former Iraq strongman Saddam Hussein. He points to a nick and hinted of an “explosive breach” to get in. “This is the only panel that made it,” Zinke said, smiling.
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected]
