among "The Top Hooters Girls of all time". Since 2002, Tweeden has participated in 16 tours with the USO including 12 to Afghanistan and Iraq. Allegations against Al Franken On October 30, 2017, California Congresswoman Jackie Speier was interviewed by the McIntyre show about a sexual assault that occurred when she was in her 20s and was a congressional staffer for Representative Leo Ryan. She reported Ryan's chief of staff "kissed me and stuck his tongue in my mouth". McIntyre said that led to a conversation with Tweeden about an alleged incident between her and Minnesota U.S. Senator Al Franken. Two weeks later, Republican operative Roger Stone wrote, "It’s Al Franken's 'time in the barrel.' Franken next in long list of Democrats to be accused of 'grabby' behavior." Following the posting of Tweeden's story, far-right radio show host and prominent conspiracy theorist. Alex Jones, broadcast that Stone had told him, in advance, "Get ready. Franken’s next". Stone told author and New Yorker reporter Jane Mayer that a Fox broadcasting executive, a friend of Tweeden had advised him of the story. On November 16, 2017, Tweeden gave an interview to 790 KABC and wrote in a post on its website that Franken behaved inappropriately toward her when the two were on a 2006 USO tour to the Middle East. Tweeden stated that Franken, who in 2008 had been elected to the Senate from Minnesota, insisted that they rehearse the kiss that appeared in the script for a skit in the USO show: "I said 'OK' so he would stop badgering me. We did the line leading up to the kiss and then he came at me, put his hand on the back of my head, mashed his lips against mine and aggressively stuck his tongue in my mouth." She said she pushed him away, feeling "disgusted and violated". Tweeden wrote that Franken also posed for a photograph with her while she was asleep on the C-17 cargo plane flying home. According to The Washington Post, the photograph, "shows Franken looking into a camera, his hands either over or on Tweeden’s chest as she slept". A subsequent review of the photo revealed that it may have been a parody of a skit that had been used in the USO show's comedy routine. In the skit, Franken appears as a doctor who informs Tweeden's character that "a woman your age should have a