Posted on 04/20/2025 7:24:24 PM PDT by Red Badger
The deep state is in a state of chaos after Pete Hegseth fired three Department of Defense aides who were allegedly involved in the leaking of classified government information earlier this year, along with the departure of Hegseth’s chief of staff from his role following an extended period of turmoil within the agency.
For context, on April 18, 2025, Hegseth terminated three Defense aides — a senior adviser named Dan Caldwell, Deputy Chief of Staff Darin Selnick, and Chief of Staff to the Deputy Secretary of Defense Colin Carroll —and removed Chief of Staff Joe Kasper from his position. All of these firings reportedly stemmed from a series of leaks that have beset the Pentagon in 2025, including the accidental inviting of Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg to a Signal group chat where top-secret plans were being discussed.
In an interview with Politico, a senior Pentagon official said that Chief of Staff Kasper and the three aides who were fired had all clashed, making the group difficult for Hegseth to work with. The official told a reporter, “Joe didn’t like those guys. They all have different styles. They just didn’t get along. It was a personality clash.”
According to another Defense official, the agency is in a chaotic state after the firings, with the official telling the press, “There is a complete meltdown in the building, and this is really reflecting on the secretary’s leadership,” the other senior defense official said. “Pete Hegseth has surrounded himself with some people who don’t have his interests at heart.”
In addition, more Defense officials weighed in on the situation, with one former Trump Administration employee telling the press that the Department of Defense is scrambling to cover their bases. He said, “The front office has some really first-rate uniformed military staff, but there’s only so much they can pick up in an organization that big. That kind of dysfunction compounds.”
While the three Defense aides who were fired from their roles will not remain at the Department of Defense, former Chief of Staff Joe Kasper is reportedly transitioning into a new position within the agency. Hinting that the upheaval within the agency may not be over, one senior Defense official told the press, “There will probably be more chaos,” adding, “It certainly reinforces the fear factor, awareness that no one’s job is safe.”
These firings followed a string of other terminations of high-ranking military leaders, including Joint Chiefs Chair Gen. C.Q. Brown and Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti. According to press accounts, bureaucratic Democrats have attempted to use the firings as grounds for distrusting Secretary Hegseth. All the while, Hegseth has stood his ground.
Watch Hegseth describe his plans for his tenure as Secretary of Defense:
VIDEO AT LINK...................
LOL-- the sine qua non of a "hostile workplace environment".
Trump has another month or two and the remainder of his term will be largely settled as to possible outcomes. The traditional period is "the first 100 days". After the installation of a new administration and a "honeymoon period", opposition to changes begins to harden and further changes become much more difficult or even impossible.
The same dynamic works with the officials that Trump appointed to the various agencies. They have a limited amount of time to make changes in their agencies. Those changes generally require firings.
More firings and early firings are a good sign.
OK
I take it you see no difference between 3 months and 4 months. Fine with me.
Well...at least 3 more homes going on sale in the D.C. Region. /S
I believe Trump has a limited amount time to make effective changes and it is not very long. After that time, most of the changes are self-sustaining and do not require much effort to continue. But adding more changes gets difficult or impossible.
Whether that time period is 3,4,5 or 6 months I cannot say, and a precise definition is not possible. The cutoff time is also somewhat arbitrary. But as much as possible must be changed as soon as possible. There is no "eleven-dimensional chess game" that will yield successful results in two years or four years if only we are patient.
You only win in the long run if you win all of the short runs first.
Trump has already accomplished much more than I had expected, and I am pleased with most of the results so far. What I did not understand until very recently is how big the project truly is (to "drain the swamp") and how much change is still required. The doctrine of Judicial Supremacy is a serious obstacle in the immediate term which must be overcome.
I think it goes right along with "An armed society is a polite society". You have to admit there's a lot of rope that needs stretching these days.
OK
I was only referring to the recognition of the difference between 3 months and 4 months in terms of calenderic math. Your points may be valid but are a different subject altogether.
Could be a compilation of multiple leaks, later assembled by “journalists”...
In that case he is correct. 4/20 - 1/20. 3 months. I assume you are operating on the premise that January the first month is month zero.
The only legacy media reporting I’ve seen on this so far this morning frames it as “more Hegseth incompetence.”
No surprise.
Pete Hegseth Fires Subversive Leakers
Three Department of Defense aides who were allegedly involved in the leaking of classified government information.
Good sign that the deep stat is becoming unglued.
“TIWIVF”
This Is What I Voted For
correct, thanks
I’m the one who said it has been 3 months. :)
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