How Tight a Ship Are They Running Over There at the Pentagon?

Unlike Michael, I don’t personally know any of the officials recently dismissed from the Department of Defense, and can’t vouch that they’re “good men with great reputations.” I do know that the known facts point to at least one official going on a leaking rampage quickly after taking the job.

Hegseth didn’t get sworn in until January 25, and most of his staff started work in late January or early February. By March 17, Tucker Carlson was posting on X, “a strike on the Iranian nuclear sites will almost certainly result in thousands of American deaths at bases throughout the Middle East, and cost the United States tens of billions of dollars. The cost of future acts of terrorism on American soil may be even higher. Those aren’t guesses. Those are the Pentagon’s own estimates.”

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Unlike Michael, I don’t personally know any of the officials recently dismissed from the Department of Defense, and can’t vouch that they’re “good men with great reputations.” I do know that the known facts point to at least one official going on a leaking rampage quickly after taking the job.

Hegseth didn’t get sworn in until January 25, and most of his staff started work in late January or early February. By March 17, Tucker Carlson was posting on X, “a strike on the Iranian nuclear sites will almost certainly result in thousands of American deaths at bases throughout the Middle East, and cost the United States tens of billions of dollars. The cost of future acts of terrorism on American soil may be even higher. Those aren’t guesses. Those are the Pentagon’s own estimates.”