Three Hegseth aides ousted in leak investigation decry 'baseless attacks'
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Dutch Uncle
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I know I'm right. I spent most of my adult life working in or with government. I'm not a business guy. It's easy to spot poseurs and weak links.In this case, I suspect you may well be right. That and Pentagon chief of staff Joe Kasper getting spooked and thinking that firing the people who'd heard he was under investigation would solve his problem:
One Phone Call Set Off a Chain of Events That Could Topple Pete Hegseth
On the night of April 3, Colin Carroll got a simple phone call that set off a chain of events leading to the roiling internal meltdown among top Pentagon staff that is now threatening to topple Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.www.dropsitenews.com
Walter its time to start taking your anti-psychotic medications again.
They serve at the pleasure of the Secretary of defense. I suspect they were given a lie detector test and failed.
Concart is still vouching for him.
Scott
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From what I've read, I highly doubt it. Looks like a clear case of Joe Kasper, Trump's former Pentagon Chief of Staff, getting paranoid about the 3 advisors in question. Even he himself seems to be admitting that he made a mistake at this point. The evidence for this is all in the following article:
One Phone Call Set Off a Chain of Events That Could Topple Pete Hegseth
On the night of April 3, Colin Carroll got a simple phone call that set off a chain of events leading to the roiling internal meltdown among top Pentagon staff that is now threatening to topple Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
www.dropsitenews.com
Looks like Kasper himself is now out:
Pete Hegseth’s chief of staff Joe Kasper out at Pentagon as ‘turf war’ results in another shakeup: report
His exit comes a month after he fired off a memo announcing an investigation into “unauthorized disclosures of sensitive and classified information across the Department of Defense.”
nypost.com
In his case, I strongly suspect it was deserved.
Dutch Uncle
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Lemme guess; it's either rechargeable or takes two D-cell batteries? Do you have a favorite hole to stick it?
Scott
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Agreed. It doesn't change what I said though.
There's actually evidence that this never happened. From an article I've referenced previously:
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Former Defense spokesperson John Ullyot wrote in Politico Magazine on Sunday that the allegations that the three staffers were not true—and that Hegseth was trying to “smear the aides.” “While the department said that it would conduct polygraph tests as part of the probe, not one of the three has been given a lie detector test,” he wrote. “In fact, at least one of them has told former colleagues that investigators advised him he was about to be cleared officially of any wrongdoing.”
Hegseth did not respond to a question from Fox and Friends’ Brian Kilmeade on why the staffers—who, he noted, had been close to Hegseth—were not asked to take a polygraph or hand over their phones as part of the investigation. “These are the guys you picked, especially Caldwell,” Kilmeade said. The leak investigation, Hegseth replied, “led to some unfortunate places, people I have known for quite some time.”
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It looks like one of the 3 advisers, Colin Caroll, had a pretty good idea as to who ultimately caused them to be fired- the former Pentagon Chief of Staff Joe Kasper. Here's the text conversation he had with him:
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“I should have handled you my way a month ago, but Steve [Feinberg] convinced me not to. That’s ok though, I don’t think this is going to end the way you thought it would,” Carroll texted Kasper. When Kasper told Carroll he had “delegated” the investigation, Carroll replied, “I’m not saying you do have anything to do with the investigation - I just know I didn’t leak anything, and the only person who didn’t like me was you.”
Asked about the texts, Carroll told Drop Site: “In my defense he has just had me fired on bullshit. I’m actually shocked he replied since he never replied to me when I needed something when I was still employed.”
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Source:
One Phone Call Set Off a Chain of Events That Could Topple Pete Hegseth
On the night of April 3, Colin Carroll got a simple phone call that set off a chain of events leading to the roiling internal meltdown among top Pentagon staff that is now threatening to topple Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
www.dropsitenews.com
It appears that Joe Kasper did eventually get what was coming to him- he's been fired now as well:
Pete Hegseth’s chief of staff Joe Kasper out at Pentagon as ‘turf war’ results in another shakeup: report
His exit comes a month after he fired off a memo announcing an investigation into “unauthorized disclosures of sensitive and classified information across the Department of Defense.”
nypost.com
They serve at the pleasure of the president, not the Secretary of Defense, but yes. trump can fire his own clown car.
Indeed.