Former Pentagon official warns department's dysfunction could topple Hegseth
Source: Politico
04/20/2025 07:15 PM EDT
The Pentagon is in “total chaos” and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is unlikely to remain in his role, according to its former top spokesperson, who painted a scene of dysfunction, backstabbing and continuous missteps at the highest levels of the department.
“The building is in disarray under Hegseth’s leadership,” John Ullyot wrote Sunday in a POLITICO Magazine opinion piece. “The dysfunction is now a major distraction for the president — who deserves better from his senior leadership.”
Ullyot, who resigned from the Pentagon last week, described a department in collapse. He accused Hegseth’s team of “falsehoods” about why three top officials were fired last week, saying they hadn’t leaked sensitive information to the media. He chastised Pentagon officials for how they handled revelations that Hegseth shared sensitive military information in a Signal chat, and he pointed to other leaks that caused embarrassment to the administration.
The remarkable accusations by a former official — who left only two days ago and insists he still supports the Trump administration’s national security policies — underscores the infighting and upheaval that has turned increasingly public in recent weeks.
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Someone "qualified" for MAGats - this guy - Robert O'Neill
Aside from multiple arrests/convictions for DUI and being a huge RW loon blowhard whose claim to fame is bragging about supposedly being the one who killed Bin Laden, he had this doozy -
By David Moye
Nov 4, 2024, 08:00 PM EST
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Harry Sisson, a content creator working to get other young voters to support the vice president, posted that he and his peers were trying to get more Harris supporters to the polls. “We’re Gen Z voters and we all PROUDLY voted for Kamala Harris! Real men support Harris!” Sisson wrote.
Although most reasonable people would see the post as basic get-out-the-vote boosterism common during the last weekend before a presidential election, it really seemed to set O’Neill off. He was so offended by the (checks notes) five college-age males happy they voted for Harris that he suggested the young men could be his sex slaves in a slightly different universe.
“You’re not men. You’re boys. If there was no social media, you would be my concubines,” he wrote.
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Definitely a "Manly man™".
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Q.E.D.
Economy, market crashing, gaping holes in computer security, breakdown of social systems, point to that goal.
Defense is PREOCCUPIED with fighting immigrants and DEI.
I'm expecting a devastating computer hack of the entire US infrastructure, and perhaps a missile attack by Russian "tourist" submarines in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
Prove me wrong.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20215296
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